Cimon defeats | | The Greeks had about this time the Persians | | several accomplished players on the (466). | | kithara, flute, and other instruments, | | who introduced new and brilliant | | passages and embellishments into their | | performances. | | Pericles, Greek | 450 | The highest degree of perfection of General and | | the dramatic art in Greece through orator. | | AEschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Herodotus, historian. | | through the musical composer Damon, | | the singer Agathon, etc., at Athens. | | Phidias, sculptor. | | Democritus, of Abdera, philosopher, Hippocrates, | | writes seven books on music. physician. | | Commencement | 430 | Lysander, of Sycion, invents a more of the Peloponnesian | | artistic instrumental accompaniment to war | | vocal music. between the | | Athenians and | | Spartans which | | Alexandrides extends the compass of lasts twenty-seven | | the Greek wind instruments. years | | (431). | | | | Socrates (469-399). | 400 | Timotheus, of Miletus, Asia Minor Alcibiades. | | singer, kithara-player and poet, | | composes many works, and improves the | | lyre. | | Brennus, Chief of | | Plato, philosopher, in his works the Gauls, | | treats also on music. burns & sacks | | Rome (390). | | Demosthenes | 360 | About this time, the first dramatic (384-322). | | performances with music in Rome. | | Diogenes (350). | 350 | Aristoteles, of Stagira, born in Alexander, the | | 384, philosopher and musician. In his Great, son of | | works much about music. Philip of Macedonia | | (333). | | Ptolemy I., King | 310 | ARISTOXENUS, of Tarentum, born in of Egypt, encourages | | 340, philosopher and musician, founds the | | a new School of music which is in cultivation of | | opposition to the teaching of sciences and | | Pythagoras, generally accepted until arts in his kingdom, | | that time. He writes many treatises