286 B.C. Olympiad 123.3Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ASI << Demetrius wins over Ionia and Sardis.
* Read Plutarch's account @ OGI_12<t= Bagnall_11B>; ~Plut:Demetr_46'6;* {Green_129.} |
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| 2 | GRE << An unsuccessful attempt by the Athenians to capture Peiraeus.
* Read Pausanias' account @ Paus_1.29'10;* Polyaen_5.17'1; {Green_130.} |
| 3 | MES ?? Antiochus, the son of Seleucus, settles Greeks from Babylon in Seleuceia.
* Read Pausanias' account @ BabylChron_5; Paus_1.16'3.* |
| 4 | AEG ?? Theophrastus and Phanias free their home city, Eresos, from a tyrant.
@ Plut:Mor_1097'B, 1126'F. |
| 5 | GRE ?? Arcesilaus leaves Theophrastus and joins the Academics.
* Read Diogenes' account @ DiogLaert_4'22,(Ct.2) '29-30.* (A.3) |
| 6 | ?? Bion of Borysthenes, when still young, attaches himself to several different philosophers, including Crates, Theodorus, and Theophrastus.
@ DiogLaert_4'51-52.(B.4) |
| 7 | ?? Theophrastus falls silent while addressing the Areopagus.
@ Gell_8.cap'9;L Aelian:VH_8'12. |
| 8 | ?? Sophocles son of Amphicleides attempts to pass a law banishing all philosophers from Attica.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ Athen_13.610'e-f;* DiogLaert_5'38.(T.5) |
| 9 | ?? An old woman realizes that Theophrastus is not a native Attic speaker.
* Read Quintilian's account @ Cic:Brut_172;L Quint_8.1'2.* |
| 10 | ?? A comment by Zenon on the number of Theophrastus' followers.
@ Plut:Mor_78'D, 545'F. |
| 11 | ?? Sayings of Theophrastus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Mor_633'B;* (Q2.1) DiogLaert_5'40.(T.10) |
| 12 | ++ General comments on the character and appearance of Theophrastus.
* Read Diogenes' account @ Athen_1.21'a-b; DiogLaert_5'36-37,* (T.3-5) '39;(T.7) Suda_Th'199. |
| 13 | << The death of Theophrastus, who is succeeded as leader of the Peripatetics by Straton.
* Read Diogenes' account @ DiogLaert_5'40-41,* (T.11-12) +'58<q"(S.1-3) Apollod:Fr_40>; Cic:Tusc_3'69;L Strab_13.608'e-609'a;(1.54) ClemAl:Strom_1.14'e; Suda_S'1185, Th'199, Th'200; {CAH_7.1'323; OCD_t.} |
| 14 | THR << Lysimacheia is damaged by an earthquake.
@ ~Just_17.1'1-3; {22 years after the foundation of the city.} |
| 15 | << Lysimachus kills Antipater, son of Cassander.
* Read Justin's account @ ~Diod_21.7'1; ~Just_16.2'4-5;* [Euseb]:Chron_231'c. |
| 16 | ASI Demetrius marches inland, pursued by Agathocles son of Lysimachus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Demetr_46'7-10;* Polyaen_4.7'12; {CAH_7.1'108.} |
| 17 | GRE Demochares recovers Eleusis, and Olympiodorus defends it against a Macedonian attack.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Mor_851'B;* Paus_1.26'3; {Green_130.} |
| 18 | MAC Pyrrhus attacks Demetrius' garrisons in Thessaly.
@ ~Plut:Pyrrh_12'8. |
| 19 | CIL Negotiations between Demetrius and Seleucus.
@ ~Plut:Demetr_47'1-6. |
| 20 | Inconclusive fighting between the armies of Demetrius and Seleucus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Demetr_48'1-4;* Polyaen_4.9'2, '5. |
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