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4th century BC timeline
399 BC
Socrates, convicted in Athens of impiety, is sentenced to death and drinks the hemlock
Portrait statuette of Socrates
(British Museum)
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396 BC
The Romans capture the nearby Etruscan town of Veii, beginning a long process of territorial expansion
Terracotta, 6th cent. BC, attributed to Vulca of Veii
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390 BC
Celtic tribes , pushing south through the Alps, reach Rome and sack the city
387 BC
Plato establishes a school in Akademeia, a suburb of Athens
c. 380 BC
Central to Plato's philosophy is the theory that there are higher Forms of reality, of which our senses perceive only a transient shadow
c. 380 BC
A Greek text, attributed to Polybus, argues that the human body is composed of four humours
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