The world in 466 BC — what happened that year

6 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.

What happened

West Asia (3)

• Landing at Cyme he learns that his pursuers are guarding the coast (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Themistocles 26)
• The Persian fleet anchors at the mouth of the Eurymedon and Cimon engages it (accounts differ) (Plutarch's Parallel Lives Plut. Cimon 12)
• At the Eurymedon River Athens wins on land and sea on the same day, capturing or destroying 200 Phoenician ships (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.100.1)

Southern Europe (3)

• Trasybulus saw that the whole city had raised troops against him. (Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 11.67.7)
• Themistocles, ostracized and in Argos, flees Spartan pursuit to Corcyra but is refused (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.136.1)
• The Molossian king shelters him, then sends him to Pydna in Macedonia, where he boards a ship for Persia (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.137.1)

Same events recorded in this year

• Eurymedon (466 BC) — the same event in Plutarch's Parallel Lives and Thucydides, History…

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