470 BC

Year 470 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 6th century BC5th century BC4th century BC
Decades: 500s BC  490s BC  480s BC 470s BC 460s BC  450s BC  440s BC
Years: 473 BC 472 BC 471 BC470 BC469 BC 468 BC 467 BC

Events

Greece

Death of Pausanias
  • Pausanias hides in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.

Architecture

Art

The sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi - panoramio (7)
  • The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created. It was for a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now kept at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
  • Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" (an earthenware piece that is used to mix water and wine) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (approximate date).

Births

Deaths

  • Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars
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