470 BC
Year 470 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Potitus and Mamercus. The denomination 470 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Events
By place
Greece
- Suspected of plotting to seize power in Sparta by instigating a helot uprising, Pausanias takes refuge in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The sanctuary is respected, but the Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.
By topic
Architecture
- The construction of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece. This includes the relief sculpture of Apollo with battling Lapiths and centaurs.
Art
- The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created in commemoration of a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC. It is now preserved at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
- Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Births
- Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens
- Hippocrates of Chios, Greek mathematician
- Mozi, Chinese philosopher
- Socrates, Greek philosopher
Deaths
- Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars