456 BCE

The temple of Zeus in Olympia is finished. The first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis, measuring about 9 metres high.

In the 450s BC, the 5th century BC.

Culture & Society

  • The temple of Zeus in Olympia is finished.source
  • The first of the Athenian sculptor Phidias' monuments to Athena, the bronze Athena Promachos, is placed on the Athenian Acropolis, measuring about 9 metres high.source

Births

  • Aristophanes, Greek playwright (died c. 386 BC)source

Deaths

  • Aeschylus, Greek playwright (born 525 BC)source