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This article concerns the period 479 BC – 470 BC.
This article concerns the period 469 BC – 460 BC.
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- ↑ Abbott, Evelyn. A History of Greece: Fron the Ionian revolt to the thirty years' peace, 500-445 B. C. United States, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892. 457.