470 BC

Year 470 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. 

 Events 
 By place 
 Greece 
 Pausanias hides in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. 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. 

 Art 
 The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created.  It was for a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now kept at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
 Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" (an earthenware piece that is used to mix water and wine) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (approximate date).

 Births 

 Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 400 BC)
 Mozi, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 390 BC)

 Deaths 

 Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars

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