128 B.C. - events and references

128 B.C. Olympiad 163.1

Consuls: Cn. Octavius Cn.f., T. Annius Rufus
Olympic victor in the stadion race: Timotheus of Tralles

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1	EGY Demetrius attempts to invade Egypt. * Read Justin's account @ ~Just_39.1'2;* ~[Euseb]:Chron_257'b; {Green_716<129>; Holbl_p200.}
2	GRE << Crates becomes head of the Academy, following the death of Carneades son of Polemarchus. * Read Apollodorus' account @ ~Apollod:Fr_54,* 55, 56; Lucian:Macr_20; {Crates was head of the Academy for two years.}
3	MES Himerus becomes notorious for greed and cruelty, after Phraates appoints him to be viceroy of Babylon. * Read Athenaeus' account @ ~Diod_34.21'1; Athen_11.466'b-c;* ~Just_42.1'3; Trog:Prol_42.
4	?? The Parthians fortify Ctesiphon, opposite Seleuceia on the river Tigris. @ Plin:HN_6'122;^L {~OCD_c.}
5	SYR The Syrians defect from Demetrius in his absence. * Read Josephus' account @ Joseph:AJ_13'267;* ~Just_39.1'3.
6	Ptolemaeus VII sets up Alexander Zabinas as a pretender to the throne of Syria. * Read Justin's account @ Joseph:AJ_13'268; ~Just_39.1'4-5;* Trog:Prol_39; ~[Euseb]:Chron_257'c; {Green_540; Holbl_p200.}
7	PER The defeat and death of Phraates of Parthia in battle against the Scythians, and the accession of Artabanus. @ ~Just_42.1'4-2'1; {CAH_8'372; OCD_arsacid.}
8	ROM << Q.Aelius Tubero fails to be elected as praetor. @ ValMax_7.5'1.^L
9	AEG << Document: IGRR_4.968, the inscription from a statue put up in honour of Cn.Domitius at Samos. @ Sherk1_46.

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