2. Gelon conquers Megara, (vol. I. p. 135 note r.) and strengthens Syracuse with the population of the ruined cities. On this occasion Epicharmus, who had formerly lived at Megara, appears to have come to Syracuse.
Theognis, the elegiac poet, still composes at an advanced age.
4. From the beginning of the year to summer, Xerxes' march from Sardis to Thermopylæ. Formation of a Grecian confederacy. Embassy of the Greeks to Gelon. (See Appendix IV.)
480. 75. Astylus as a Syracusan for the second time.
1. Battle of Thermopylæ at the same time with the Olympic festival.
Pleistarchus the Agid, Cleombrotus his πρόδικος.
After the Carnean festival, the Spartans, with the rest of the Peloponnesians, encamp at the Isthmus.
Battle of Salamis on the 20th of Boëdromion.
Gelon and Theron defeat the Carthaginians on the Himeras.
Cleombrotus leads the army back from the Isthmus after the eclipse of the sun (2d Octob.), and dies not long after, Herod. IX. 10.