470 BC

Year 470 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

• Pausanias hides in the Temple of Athena of the Brazen House to escape arrest. The Spartans wall in the sanctuary and starve Pausanias to death.

• The construction of the Temple of Zeus, begins at Olympia, Greece.

• The Charioteer, in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, is created. It was for a victory in the Pythian Games of 478 or 474 BC (approximate date). It is now kept at the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
• Pan Painter makes a "bell krater" (an earthenware piece that is used to mix water and wine) which has a red-figure decoration of Artemis slaying Actaeon. It is now kept at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (approximate date).

• Aspasia of Miletus, mistress of Pericles of Athens (d. c. 400 BC)
• Mozi, Chinese philosopher (d. c. 390 BC)

• Pausanias, Spartan commander during the Greco-Persian Wars