155 B.C. Olympiad 156.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ASI The senate sends legates to investigate the dispute between Prusias and Attalus.
@ ~Polyb_33.1'1-2; {Walbank_p542.} |
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| 2 | ROM The senate votes against releasing the Achaean exiles.
@ ~Polyb_33.1'3-8. |
| 3 | EGY {Loius -M = March} Document: SEG_9.7, the will published by Ptolemaeus VIII.
* Read Bagnall's account @ Bagnall_43;* Festus:Brev_13'2; {Green_443.} |
| 4 | GRE ?? Diogenes is persuaded by Zenon (? of Tarsus) to study philosophy.
@ Plut:Mor_328'D. |
| 5 | ROM The Athenians send the philosophers Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus to appeal against the decision of the Sicyonians.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Apollod:Fr_57; Cic:DeOr_2'155,L '157,L 3'68,L +:Acad_2'137, :Tusc_4'5;L Plin:HN_7'112-113;L Quint_12.1'35; Plut:CatMai_22'1-23'1;* Paus_7.11'5; Gell_6.14'8-10, 17.21'48;L Aelian:VH_3'17; Macrob:Sat_1.5'14-16;L {CAH_8'472-473; OCD_d.} |
| 6 | PEL The Achaeans send another embassy, led by Telecles and Anaxidamus, to Rome.
@ ~Polyb_33.3'1-2; {Walbank_p545.} |
| 7 | ASI Prusias advances as far as Pergamum.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_32.15'1-14;* Diod_31.35'1; Appian:Mith_3'a-b; Suda_P'2914; {CAH_8'366.} |
| 8 | SYR << Orophernes, the brother of Ariarathes, plots against Demetrius.
@ Just_35.1'1-4; {Soon after Orophernes' expulsion from Cappadocia, when he had taken refuge in Syria.} |
| 9 | EGY << The floruit of Aristarchus the grammarian.
* Read St.Jerome's account @ Strab_13.609'd;(1.55) ChronPasc_441'B; +Hieron:Chron_1861;* AmmMarc_22.16'16;L Suda_A'3892. |
| 10 | GRE << Pythocles of Athens and others revive the art of sculpture.
@ +Plin:HN_34'52.L |
| 11 | ROM << Polybius the historian persuades the Romans not to demand troops from Locri during the Dalmatian War.
@ Polyb_12.5'2-3. |
| 12 | ILL Scipio Nasica captures Delminium; the end of the Dalmatian War.
* Read Frontinus' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_47'b; Strab_7.315'c;(5.5) Frontin:Str_3.6'2;* Ampel_19'11; [Vict]:VirIll_44'4;L Zonar_9.25'g; {OCD_dal.} |
| 13 | ASI << Document: OGI_315.6, a letter from Attalus II to Attis describing a meeting of his advisers.
@ Bagnall_42. |
| 14 | EXT ++ The extent of the kingdom of Eucratides.
* Read Strabo's account @ Strab_11.516'e,* (11.2) 15.686'a;(1.3) Aelian:NA_15'8. |
| 15 | ?? The death of Eucratides, king of Bactria.
@ Just_41.6'5; {CAH_8'403; OCD_b<145>.} |
| 16 | ASI The fleet of Prusias is destroyed in a storm.
@ Diod_31.35'1. |
| 17 | The Romans send out decemviri to restrain Prusias.
@ ~Polyb_33.7'1-4; {Walbank_p549.} |
| 18 | ROM ?? Cato marries Salonia, the daughter of his secretary.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Seneca:Contr_7.6'17; Plut:CatMai_24'1-8,* 33'1-3; {Cato's son by Salonia was born in 154 B.C.} |
| 19 | >> The triumph of Marcellus, over the Apuani.
@ +FastTr_p105. |
| 20 | >> Scipio refuses to celebrate a triumph, despite the approval of the senate.
* Read Fasti's account @ +FastTr_p105;* Ampel_19'11; [Vict]:VirIll_44'5.L |
| 21 | >> A fig-tree grows on the altar of Jupiter on the Capitol.
@ ~Plin:HN_17'244.L |
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