245 B.C. Olympiad 133.4Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | EGY {30 Hathyr -E = January} Document: PHib_106, a receipt for beer-tax.
@ PLoeb_2.375. |
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| 2 | {Phamenoth -E = April/May} Document: PHib_33, a property-return of sheep.
@ PLoeb_2.321. |
| 3 | EGY Ptolemaeus returns to Egypt.
* Read Daniel's account @ ~OGI_54<t= Bagnall_26>; Daniel_11'8;* Catull_66'35-36; ~Just_27.1'9; Porph:Fr_43; {CAH_7.1'421; Green_697.} |
| 4 | The astronomer Conon discovers the "Lock of Berenice".
* Read Strabo's account @ Callim:Fr_110'1-8; Catull_66'1-9; Strab_1.3'd;* (1.6) {CAH_7.1'503; Green_697.} |
| 5 | GRE ?? Sayings of Bion.
* Read Diogenes' account @ Cic:Tusc_3'62;L DiogLaert_2'117,(St.5) 4'47-51;* (B.3) Suda_A'249. |
| 6 | ++ General comments on the character and witticisms of Bion.
* Read Diogenes' account @ Strab_1.15'b;(2.2) DiogLaert_4'51-54.* (B.5-9) |
| 7 | ?? The death of Bion of Borysthenes.
@ DiogLaert_4'54-57;(B.10) {OCD_b.} |
| 8 | ?? %PON Nymphis of Heracleia writes a history down to the reign of the third Ptolemaeus.
@ Suda_N'598; {~OCD_n; information from Nymphis' history is contained in the summary of Memnon, down to 246 B.C.} |
| 9 | PEL << The death of Alexander son of Craterus.
@ ~Plut:Arat_17'2; {CAH_7.1'250; OCD_a.} |
| 10 | {? May} Aratus is elected general of the Achaean League for the first time.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Arat_16'1,* 35'7, 53'1; {CAH_7.1'249; OCD_a.} |
| 11 | ++ The poet Euphorion is a favourite of Nicaea.
* Read Suda's account @ Plut:Mor_472'D; Suda_E'3801.* |
| 12 | Antigonus tricks Nicaea and recaptures Corinth.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Arat_17'1-18'2;* Polyaen_4.6'1; {CAH_7.1'250.} |
| 13 | EGY << Document: FGrH_160, an account of Ptolemaeus's invasion of Syria.
* Read Bagnall's account @ Austin_220; Bagnall_27.* |
| 14 | EGY << Eratosthenes is summoned to Alexandria by Ptolemaeus, who makes him director of the library.
* Read Suda's account @ Eratosth:Fr_T1; POxy_1241; Suda_E'2898;* Tzetz:ProlCom_21; {OCD_apollonius; Green_204.} |
| 15 | GRE << Document: SIG_402, a decree of Chios recognising the status of the festival of Soteria at Delphi.
@ Burstein_62. |
| 16 | AFR The Romans defeat the Carthaginian fleet near Aegimurus.
@ +Flor_1.18'30;L {This Roman victory must be treated as dubious; it is not mentioned by any other writer apart from Florus.} |
| 17 | GRE Aratus lays waste Locris and Calydonia.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Arat_16'1;* Paus_2.8'4; {CAH_7.1'249.} |
| 18 | The Aetolians inflict a severe defeat on the Boeotians at Chaeroneia.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_20.4'2-7,* 5'2; ~Plut:Arat_16'1; {CAH_7.1'249.} |
| 19 | AFR The Roman fleet is destroyed in a storm off the African coast.
@ +Flor_1.18'31-32.L |
| 20 | EGY << Document: PPetr_3.43(2), a contract for public works in the Arsinoite nome.
@ PLoeb_2.348. |
| 21 | {26 Gorpiaeus -M = November} Document: PLoeb_2.253, a deposition of evidence by Euphronius. |
| 22 | ETR >> The Romans found a colony at Fregenae.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_19'b;* ~Vell_1.14'8; {CAH_7.2'564.} |
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