170 B.C. Olympiad 152.3Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | EPI Cephalus is forced by the accusations of Charops to openly support Perseus.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_27.15'1-16;* Diod_30.5'1; {Walbank_p313.} |
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| 2 | Hostilius escapes a plot to capture him at Phanote.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_27.16'1-6;* Diod_30.5a'1; {CAH_8'315.} |
| 3 | GRE << Atrocities committed by Crassus and Lucretius against the Greek states.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_43.6'2-3,* 7'1, '8-10; [Liv]:Per_43'a-b; ~Zonar_9.22'e; {CAH_8'311.} |
| 4 | MAC Hostilius attempts to invade Macedonia by a mountain route.
@ Liv_44.2'6. |
| 5 | Perseus captures more towns in Thessaly.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_29.19'7;* +Liv_43.11'9, 45.3'7; Vell_1.9'1; {CAH_8'533; Green_709.} |
| 6 | CIL << The cities of Tarsus and Mallus rebel against Antiochus.
@ ~2Macc_4'30-31. |
| 7 | SYR << Menelaus persuades the regent Andronicus to murder Onias at Daphne.
* Read 2Maccabees' account @ (?) Daniel_11'22; ~2Macc_4'32-38;* {Green_512.} |
| 8 | PER ?? The Parthian king Phraates defeats the Mardi, and settles them at Charax in Media.
* Read Justin's account @ IsidChar_2'k; Just_41.5'9.* |
| 9 | << The accession of Mithridates I of Parthia.
@ ~Just_41.5'9-6'1; {Green_353; OCD_arsacids.} |
| 10 | EXT << The accession of Eucratides I of Bactria.
@ ~Just_41.6'1; {CAH_8'401; Green_439.} |
| 11 | ROM {9 Oct. -R = ?July} Document: SIG_646, a decree of the senate transmitted by the praetor Q.Maenius, concerning Thisbae in Boeotia.
@ Bagnall_40. |
| 12 | SYR {month5 -B = July/Aug.} Antiochus puts to death the "son of Seleucus".
@ #BabylChron_BM.35603'R12-13; Diod_30.7'1; {CAH_8'533; Green_438.} |
| 13 | THR Hortensius sacks Abdera.
* Read Livy's account @ Diod_30.6'1; +Liv_43.4'8-10;* {CAH_8'311.} |
| 14 | CRE << The people of Gortyn attack Cydonia.
@ Polyb_28.15'1; {Walbank_p349.} |
| 15 | SPA Olonicus leads a rebellion in Spain.
@ [Liv]:Per_43'b; {CAH_8'533.} |
| 16 | MAC Hostilius fails to make any progress in the war against Perseus.
@ Plut:Aem_9'3-4. |
| 17 | ROM The Roman senate restores the freedom of Abdera.
@ +Liv_43.4'1-13; {CAH_8'311.} |
| 18 | Embassies appear before the senate, from Carthage and Masinissa, from Alpine states complaining about C.Cassius, from Chalcis complaining about C.Lucretius, and from many other Greek states.
* Read Livy's account @ Diod_30.8'1; +Liv_43.5'1-8'10;* {CAH_8'182, '312.} |
| 19 | MAC Ap.Claudius unsuccessfully attacks Uscana.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_43.9'1-10'8,* 21'4. |
| 20 | EGY Ptolemaeus VII becomes joint ruler with his brother.
@ PLoeb_1.101'15; Polyb_29.23'4; Eupolem_4; ~[Euseb]:Chron_161'd, 163'a; PTeb_5'4<t= Austin_231>, 6'50, 9'15<t= Austin_260>, 10'5<t= Austin_260>; PSI_1016'17<t= PLoeb_1.37>; Malal_197; {Green_430; OCD_p.} |
| 21 | ROM {26 January -R = ?October} Elections for new consuls.
@ #Liv_43.11'1-6; {CAH_8'312.} |
| 22 | {28 January -R = ?October} Elections for new praetors.
@ #Liv_43.11'7-8. |
| 23 | {February -R = ?November} Roman envoys report back to the senate on the conduct of the war in Macedonia.
@ +Liv_43.11'9-12. |
| 24 | {25 February -R = ?November} The beginning of an intercalary month at Rome.
@ #Liv_43.11'13. |
| 25 | EGY {9 Xandicus -M = 9 Phaophi -E = November} Document: PRyl_583, the lease of a vineyard to Apollonius.
@ Bagnall_94. |
| 26 | GRE The Roman envoys Popillius and Octavius visit allied Greek cities.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_28.3'1-5'6;* ~Liv_43.17'1-10; {CAH_8'313; OCD_p.} |
| 27 | MOE Perseus attacks the Dardani, and captures (?) Chalestrum.
* Read Livy's account @ Diod_30.4'1; Liv_43.18'2,* 19'4; [Liv]:Per_43'b; Plut:Aem_9'5; {Walbank_p336.} |
| 28 | SYR Antiochus learns of Egyptian plans for a war against him.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_27.19'1-2;* Diod_30.2'1; Porph:Fr_49a; Malal_205-206; {Green_709.} |
| 29 | ROM ++ The character of P.Scipio, the son of Africanus, who had poor health and died young.
@ CIL_10<t=L ROL_p4>; Cic:Sen_35;L {Little is known about the life of this Scipio, because his ill health prevented from taking part in politics.} |
| 30 | Embassies from Antiochus and Ptolemaeus arrive at Rome.
@ ~Polyb_28.1'1-9; {Walbank_p321-324.} |
| 31 | == The birth of the poet Accius.
@ ~Cic:Brut_229;L {OCD_a; Green_709.} |
| 32 | ROM << Document: Sherk1_20, a decree of the senate about the city of Coronea. |
| 33 | PEL Document: Sherk1_22, a decree of Argos in honour of Cn.Octavius. |
| 34 | PEL The Achaean league restores the honours given to Eumenes.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_27.18'1-3,* 28.6'1-7'15; {Walbank_p318.} |
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