Curated category
480s BC births
- EuripidesEuripides was born on Salamis Island around 480 BC, the same day that Athens defeated Persia at the Battle of Salamis. His father Mnesarchus worked as a…
- HerodotusHerodotus was born around 485 BC in the Greek city of Halicarnassus, now known as Bodrum, Turkey. At that time, this port city lay under Persian control…