Year 405 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Barbatus, Capitolinus, Cincinnatus,...

of Syracuse. Thus ended the brief period of democracy. The period from 405 BC right up to the conquest by Rome would be marked by the rulers of Syracuse...

The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. This century saw the establishment of Pataliputra as a capital of...

(~511 BC): The Fall of Miletus (c. 511 BC) Phoenissae (c. 476 BC) Danaides Actaeon Huzaifus Alcestis Tantalus Achaeus of Eretria (484-c. 405 BC) Adrastus...

streak of decisive victories in the Aegean Sea, notably at Aegospotamos, in 405 BC. Athens capitulated the following year and lost all its empire. Lysander...

Amanineteyerike, King (431–405 BC) Baskakeren, King (405–404 BC) Harsiotef, King (404–369 BC) China: Spring and Autumn period (771–c.453 BC) Zhou, China: Eastern...

the Odrysae in the late 5th to early 4th century BC (attested from before 405 BC to after 390/389 BC). On the basis of circumstantial evidence, Medocus/Amadocus...

495 BC) 405 BC Philolaus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 480 BC) 404 BC Alcibiades, Athenian statesman (b. c. 450 BC) Cleophon...

fragments of Menander. The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind...

Lysandros; c. 454 BC – 395 BC) was a Spartan military and political leader. He destroyed the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, forcing Athens...