490 The Battle of Marathon. Æschylos and his brothers, Kynægeiros
and Ameinias, so distinguished themselves, that the Athenians
ordered their heroic deeds to be commemorated in a picture.
Death of Theognis (?).
488 Prize awarded to Simonides for an elegy on Marathon. Æschylos,
piqued, it is said, at his failure in the competition, again
departed to Sicily.