247 B.C. Olympiad 133.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | SIC Hamilcar Barca is appointed Carthaginian commander.
* Read Nepos' account @ +Polyb_1.56'1; Diod_24.5'1-2; Nepos_22.1'1-2;* +Zonar_8.16'b; {CAH_7.2'563.} |
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| 2 | ITA Hamilcar raids the coast of Southern Italy.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.56'2-3;* Oros_4.10'4;L +Zonar_8.16'f; {OCD_h.} |
| 3 | AFR A privately raised force of Roman ships makes a raid on Hippo.
* Read Zonaras' account @ Frontin:Str_1.5'6; +Zonar_8.16'c-d,* 'h. |
| 4 | The Carthaginian general Hanno captures Hecatompylus.
* Read Diodorus' account @ Polyb_1.73'1; ~Diod_24.10'1-2;* Appian:Sic_2'8;(4) {CAH_7.2'563.} |
| 5 | SIC The Romans capture the island of Pelias.
@ +Zonar_8.16'd-f. |
| 6 | Hamilcar seizes the hill of Heircte.
@ +Polyb_1.56'3-57'8; {CAH_7.2'670; OCD_h.} |
| 7 | GRE ?? The death of the philosopher Dionysius of Heracleia.
* Read Diogenes' account @ Censor:DN_15'2;L DiogLaert_7'167;* {OCD_d.} |
| 8 | CYR << Demetrius the Fair is assassinated.
* Read Justin's account @ Catull_66'27-28; ~Just_26.3'6-8;* Trog:Prol_26; [Euseb]:Chron_237'b, 'd; {Green_697.} |
| 9 | EXT << The death of %:d/diodotus*1 Diodotus I, king of Bactria, and the accession of Diodotus II.
@ ~Just_41.4'8-9; {CAH_8'420; OCD_d<235?>.} |
| 10 | PER << The Parthians gain independence from Seleucid rule.
* Read Arrian's account @ Strab_11.515'd;(9.3) Appian:Syr_65'b; Arrian:Fr_30,* 31; DioCass_40.14'3; Herodian_6.2'7(?); ~Just_41.2'1, !4'3-4; +[Euseb]:Chron_207'c; Julian:Or_1.17'C; +Hieron:Chron_1769; AmmMarc_23.6'2-3; Suda_A'4015; {CAH_7.1'220; OCD_p.} |
| 11 | << Arsaces is proclaimed king of the Parthians.
* Read Arrian's account @ IsidChar_2'm; ~Arrian:Fr_31;* {OCD_a.} |
| 12 | EGY ?? Document: PMich_87, a letter from Calippus to Zenon.
@ Bagnall_106; {In the 38th year of Ptolemaeus.} |
| 13 | EGY << Apollonius dismisses Zenon from his post as estate manager.
@ PCZen_59832<t= Bagnall_76>. |
| 14 | << The Carthaginians send an embassy to Ptolemaeus II, but fail to get any practical assistance against Rome.
@ Appian:Sic_1; {This happened after the Roman naval disasters in 249 B.C.} |
| 15 | AFR == The birth of Hannibal, the famous Carthaginian general.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_2.1'6;* Nepos_23.2'3, 3'2, 13'1; Liv_21.1'4; Ampel_28'4;L Zonar_8.21'd; {OCD_h.} |
| 16 | ETR >> The Romans found colonies at Aefulum and Alsium.
@ ~Vell_1.14'8; {CAH_7.2'564.} |
| 17 | ROM >> The censor A.Torquatus intervenes to protect the graves of the Popillian clan.
@ Cic:Leg_2'55;L {A.Torquatus is dated to this year by FastCap_p56.} |
| 18 | ROM Document: PCZen_59341, a petition from Theopropus to Apollonius.
@ PLoeb_2.267; Bagnall_57. |
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