Athens By graceeee 335 Aristotle founds the Lyceum Period: 335 to 499 Athens 338 Battle of Chaeronea; Alexander visits Athens; Lykourgos begins major infrastructure construction programme 351 Demosthenes begins his campaign against Philip II of Macedon 354 Xenophon dies 386 Plato founds the Academy 386 Aristophanes dies 387 Second Athenian League established 394 Battle of Knidos, Konon rebuilds walls of Athens 395 Rebuilding of the Long Walls 399 Death of Socrates 403 Restoration of democracy 404 Surrender of Athens, destruction of the Long Walls, rule of the Thirty Tyrants 411 The “Four Hundred” seize power; Women at the Thesmophoria produced 412 Mass revolt of Athenian “allies” 415 Sicilian expedition launched 421 Peace of Nikias; Erekhtheion begun 427 Construction of Temple of Athena Nike begins 429 Death of Pericles 430 Annual invasions of Attica begin; visitation of the plague; Xenophon born 431 The Archidamian War, the first part of the Great Peloponnesian War begins 435 Construction of Erechtheion begins 437 onstruction of Propylaea begins 438 Pheideias’ Statue of Athena dedicated 446 Aristophanes born 460 Pericles leads Athens into its ‘Golden Age’ 461 Peloponnesian Wars 461 Persian Wars 499 Ionian Revolt