288 B.C. Olympiad 123.1Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | MAC Ptolemaeus, Lysimachus, and Pyrrhus form a coalition against Demetrius.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Pyrrh_10'6-11'2,* ~:Demetr_44'1-3; Paus_1.9'8; Just_16.2'1; Oros_3.23'53-54;L {~CAH_7.1'108.} |
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| 2 | SIC << Death of Agathocles son of Agathocles, allegedly murdered by Archagathus the grandson of Agathocles.
* Read Diodorus' account @ ~Diod_21.16'1-3;* Just_23.2'5; Trog:Prol_23; {~CAH_7.1'409.} |
| 3 | ?? Agathocles enlists the Mamertines as mercenaries.
@ DioCass_fr.40'8. |
| 4 | ?? Agathocles breaks an oath, in order to slaughter some of his enemies.
@ Polyaen_5.3'1. |
| 5 | ?? Agathocles embellishes Syracuse with new public buildings.
@ Diod_16.83'2. |
| 6 | ?? Agathocles tries to disguise his baldness by wearing a wreath of myrtle.
@ Aelian:VH_11'4. |
| 7 | ?? Sayings of Agathocles, alluding to his origins as a potter, and in response to insults from a city which he was besieging.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Athen_11.466'a<q" Caecilius>; Plut:Mor_176'E-F,* 458'E-F, 544'B-C. |
| 8 | ++ General remarks on the character and career of Agathocles.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_9.23'2, 12.15'1-11,* 15.35'1-7; Diod_19.1'5-8, 21.17'1-4; Suda_A'117, K'214. |
| 9 | << The death of Agathocles, king of Syracuse.
* Read Justin's account @ Lucian:Macr_10<q" Democh_5>; Polyb_12.15'3; Diod_20.101'3, ~21.16'4-6; ~Just_23.2'6-13;* Trog:Prol_23; {CAH_7.1'409; OCD_a.} |
| 10 | << Poseidippus of Cassandreia produces his first comedy.
@ Suda_P'2111; {OCD_p.} |
| 11 | ASI << Document: SIG_368, a decree of the Ionian League in honour of Hippostratus of Miletus.
* Read Bagnall's account @ Bagnall_10;* Burstein_8. |
| 12 | PON ?? The foundation of the city of %:a/amastris*1 Amastris, by Amastris the mother of the tyrants of Heracleia.
* Read Strabo's account @ Strab_12.544'd-e,* (3.10) 553'c;(3.26) Memn_4'9, 5'4. |
| 13 | ?? Amastris is murdered by her sons.
@ Memn_5'2. |
| 14 | THR Demetrius advances against Lysimachus, but returns when he receives news of Pyrrhus' capture of Beroea.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Pyrrh_11'3-7,* ~:Demetr_44'4-6; Paus_1.10'2; {Green_127.} |
| 15 | ?? Lachares escapes to Lysimacheia after Sestus is captured.
@ Polyaen_3.7'3; {Polyaenus gives no indication of the date, but it is likely to have been part of an attack by Demetrius on Lysimachus.} |
| 16 | SIC Menon assassinates Archagathus.
@ ~Diod_21.16'6-7. |
| 17 | MAC Demetrius' army deserts to Pyrrhus, and Demetrius loses control of Macedonia.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:Off_2'26;L ~Plut:Pyrrh_11'8-14,* ~:Demetr_44'7-10; Paus_1.10'2, 12'3; Just_16.2'2-3; Trog:Prol_16; +[Euseb]:Chron_233'a-b, 241'b, 'e, 245'c; +Hieron:Chron_1729; Oros_3.23'55;L Malal_196; {OCD_d; Green_127.} |
| 18 | Lysimachus captures Amphipolis.
@ Polyaen_4.12'2; {Green_127.} |
| 19 | The partition of Macedonia between Pyrrhus and Lysimachus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Pyrrh_12'1;* Paus_1.10'2; [Euseb]:Chron_233'b, 241'b, 'e, 245'c; {CAH_7.1'108, CAH_7.2'462.} |
| 20 | SIC The Mamertines agree to leave Syracuse, but afterwards seize the city of Messana.
* Read Diodorus' account @ Polyb_1.7'1-5, 3.26'6; ~Diod_21.18'1-2;* Strab_6.268'a,(2.3) 'c;(2.3) DioCass_fr.40'6; Zonar_8.8'c; {CAH_7.2'474, '665; OCD_mess.} |
| 21 | PEL Demetrius tours the Greek states in an attempt to rally support.
@ ~Plut:Demetr_45'1-5; {Green_128.} |
| 22 | ROM ?? "Triumviri capitales" are appointed for the first time.
@ ~[Liv]:Per_11'c. |
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