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  4th century BC timeline
     
399 BC
 
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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
 
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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
 
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Celtic tribes , pushing south through the Alps, reach Rome and sack the city      
387 BC
 
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Plato establishes a school in Akademeia, a suburb of Athens      
c. 380 BC
 
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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
 
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A Greek text, attributed to Polybus, argues that the human body is composed of four humours