Editing 416 BC

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Year '''416 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Tribunate of Atratinus, Ambustus, Mugillanus and Rutilus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 338 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 416 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [[Anno Domini]] [[calendar era]] became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* With the encouragement of [[Alcibiades]], the [[Athens|Athenians]] take the island of [[Milos|Melos]] (which has remained neutral during the [[Peloponnesian War]]). Its inhabitants are treated with great cruelty by the Athenians, with captured adult men being killed and the women and children made slaves.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Seaman |first=Michael G. |date=1997 |title=The Athenian Expedition to Melos in 416 B.C. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436483 |journal=Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=385–418 |issn=0018-2311}}</ref>
* In [[Sicily]], the [[Ionians|Ionian]] city of [[Segesta]] asks for Athenian help from the [[Dorians|Dorian]] city of [[Selinus]] (which is supported by the powerful Sicilian city of [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]]). The people of Syracuse are ethnically Dorian (as are the [[Sparta]]ns), while the Athenians, and their allies in Sicily, are Ionian. The Athenians feel obliged to assist their ally and therefore prepare an armada to attack Sicily.

=== By topic ===
==== Drama ====
* According to [[Plato]]'s [[Symposium (Plato)|''Symposium,'']] the tragedian [[Agathon]] wins first prize at the [[Lenaia]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Swift |first=Laura |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=58t6EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA364 |title=A Companion to Greek Lyric |date=2022-05-24 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-12262-3 |page=364 |language=en}}</ref>
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* Agathon along with [[Alcibiades]] and [[Socrates]] and [[Aristophanes]] and others attend a symposium described by Plato.

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