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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 470 Bc, 470 Bc Births, 470 Bc Deaths, 470s Bc Births, 471 Bc, 472 Bc, 473 Bc, 473 Bc Deaths, 474 Bc, 474 Bc Deaths, 475 Bc, 475 Bc Deaths, 476 Bc, 476 Bc Deaths, 477 Bc, 477 Bc Establishments, 478 Bc, 478 Bc Deaths, 478 Bc Establishments, 479 Bc, 479 Bc Deaths, Battle of Plataea, Delian League, Confucius, Heraclitus, Kithairon, Gelo, Ephialtes of Trachis, Socrates, Aspasia, Battle of Mycale, Serpent Column, Mozi, Nicias, Temple of Confucius, Xenophanes, Hecataeus of Miletus, Hippocrates of Chios, Mardonius, Alexander I of Macedon, Aristides, Hellenotamiae, Aristodemus of Sparta, Pausanias, Battle of the Cremera, Ahala, Anaxilas, Laches, Panduvasdeva of Sri Lanka, Theron of Acragas, Androcydes, Sestos, Attaginus, King Fuchai of Wu, Battle of Cumae, Amompharetus, King Jing of Zhou, Bo Pi, Stesimbrotos of Thasos, Battle of Lize, Callicrates of Sparta. Excerpt: Millennium:: 1st millennium BC Events and trends Births Deaths A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Laches (Gr. ) (c.475 BC - 418 Be was an Athenian aristocrat and general during the Peloponnesian War . His date of birth is unknown, but Plato asserts, not implausibly, that he was distinctly older than Socrates, who was born around 470 BC.In 427 BCE, Laches and Charoeades were sent to Sicily with a fleet of 20 ships in order to support Athenian allies against Syracuse . When Charoeades died in 426 BCE, Laches took over the supreme command of the fleet and forced the cities of Mylae and Messana to yield. However, due to the annual reappointment of generals, at the beginning of 425 BCE he was replaced by Pythodoros as supreme commander. The first Athenian expedition to Sicily ended badly. Upon Laches return to Athens he was prosecuted by Cleon, but was acquitted of any wrong-doing. His trial was satirized by Aristop...
