570 BC

Events

  • Berlin Kore, from a cemetery at Keratea, near Athens, is begun. It is now at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany.
  • Francois Vase, black figure decoration on a volute crater, is made by Kleitias and Ergotimos (approximate date). It is now in a museum in Italy.
  • Amasis II drives Apries from the throne of Egypt.
  • Births

  • Xenophanes, Greek philosopher
  • Pythagoras, Samian Greek philosopher and mathematician (approximate date)
  • Deaths

  • Sappho, Greek lyric poet
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    Alexander the Great’s Perilous Pilgrimage to the Siwa Oracle

    Greek Reporter 22 Mar 2025
    By 332 BC when the young king had already conquered vast swathes of the Persian empire ... 570-526 BC) built a shrine to Amun at the oasis to assert Egyptian control and win the favor of the Libyan tribes.
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