NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 490 BCE

Battle of Marathon.
Phidippides runs 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens to announce the news of the Athenian victory; origin of the marathon long_distance race.

Births

Empedocles, Greek philosopher (+ circa 430 BC) (estimated date).
Phidias, Greek sculptor (+ circa 430 BC) (estimated date).
Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (+ circa 430 BC) (estimated date).

Deaths

Categories: 490s BC

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Archaic Architectural Greek Sculpture (267 words)
	560 BCE, Fragment of metope, Treasury of Sikyon, Delphi.
	525 BCE, E. Pediment, Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi.
	525 BCE, N. Frieze, Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi.

Achaemenid period (553 bce - 330 bce) (1216 words)
	In the middle of the sixth century BCE, the Achaemanid clan of the Persians was headed by Cyrus, who ruled, under Median domination, as sub-king of Parsa, or Persis.
	In 553 BCE Cyrus led a revolt that resulted in the overthrow of the Median ruler and the rise to the power of the Achaemenids.
	A more ambitious to subjugate the Greeks was attempted by Xerxes, but after a navel disaster at Salamis in 480 BCE and a decimation of the land forces at Plataea the next year, the invading forces were withdrawn to the shores of Asia Minor.

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