158 B.C. Olympiad 155.3Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ROM The Athenians and Delians send embassies to Rome about a legal dispute.
@ ~Polyb_32.7'1-5; {Walbank_p525.} |
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| 2 | CAP << Orophernes drives Ariarathes out of Cappadocia.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_3.5'2;* Diod_31.32'1; ~[Liv]:Per_47'a; Appian:Syr_47'b; Trog:Prol_34; Zonar_9.24'h; {CAH_8'359.} |
| 3 | GRE << Cleitomachus becomes a pupil of Carneades.
* Read Apollodorus' account @ ~Apollod:Fr_56;* Plut:Mor_328'C; {~OCD_cl.} |
| 4 | ASI ?? The poet Leschides accompanies Eumenes on his campaigns.
@ Suda_L'311. |
| 5 | ?? Eumenes creates a library at Pergamum by collecting a large number of books, which are written on parchment when the Egyptians ban the export of papyrus.
* Read Vitruvius' account @ Vitr_7.pr'4;* Strab_13.609'a.(1.54) |
| 6 | LYC ?? Document: OGI_751, a letter from Attalus to Amlada.
@ Austin_205. |
| 7 | ASI ++ General remarks on the character of Eumenes, a wise and loyal king.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_32.8'1-7;* Sall:Hist_4.67'8; Suda_E'3579. |
| 8 | << The death of Eumenes II, and accession of Attalus II.
* Read Strabo's account @ OGI_264'c<t= Burstein_83>; FGrH_506'1; ~Polyb_32.12'1; Diod_31.36'1; Strab_13.624'c-d;* (4.2) Plut:Mor_184'B, 489'F; Trog:Prol_34; {CAH_8'334; OCD_a<160/59>; see also Walbank_p526.} |
| 9 | ROM The censors P.Scipio Nasica and M.Popillius complete the census.
* Read Livy's account @ ~FastCap_p66; ~[Liv]:Per_47'a;* Vell_2.3'1; Gell_4.20'11. |
| 10 | {19 August -R} The triumph of M.Fulvius, over the Eleates.
@ #FastTr_p105. |
| 11 | Ariarathes arrives in Rome after his expulsion from Cappadocia.
@ Polyb_31.10'1; {CAH_8'359..} |
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