300 B.C. Olympiad 120.1Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | SYR {23 Xanthicos -M = ? April} The foundation of Seleuceia on the Orontes.
* Read Malalas' account @ Strab_16.749'e;(2.4) Appian:Syr_57'b, 58'a; Ampel_31'1; +Hieron:Chron_1715; Malal_142, #199;* GeorgMon_p285'b; {CAH_7.1'496; OCD_s.} |
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| 2 | {1 Artemisios -M = ? April} Seleucus holds a festival at "Iopolis", near Antioch.
@ #Malal_199. |
| 3 | {21 Artemisios -M = ? May} The foundation of Antioch.
* Read Malalas' account @ Diod_20.47'6<+v>; Strab_16.749'e-750'c;(2.4-5) Joseph:Ap_2'39; Paus_8.33'3; Ampel_31'1; Just_15.4'7-8; ChronPasc_157'C; PausDam_3, 10; Julian:Mis_347'A; +Hieron:Chron_1715; Malal_29, #199-202;* Suda_A'2692; {CAH_7.1'496; OCD_a.} |
| 4 | PEL ?? The establishment of a tyranny at Sicyon.
@ ~Plut:Arat_9'4; {About 50 years before the expulsion of Nicocles.} |
| 5 | EPI Agathocles captures Corcyra.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Diod_21.2'1-3'1; Plut:Pyrrh_9'2,* :Mor_557'B; {CAH_7.1'496.} |
| 6 | ETR Appuleius begins the siege of Nequinum in Umbria.
@ +Liv_10.9'7-8; {CAH_7.2'664.} |
| 7 | AEG ?? The poetess Erinna dies when only 19 years old.
@ Suda_H'521; {OCD_e; but the Suda places Erinna much earlier, making her a contemporary of Sappho.} |
| 8 | ++ General comments on the career of the grammarian Hecataeus of Abdera.
@ Suda_E'359; {OCD_h.} |
| 9 | ++ General comments on the career of the historian Menaechmus.
@ Suda_M'141; {Menaechmus lived in the time of the successors of Alexander.} |
| 10 | ++ General comments on the character and art of the painter Protogenes.
@ Plin:HN_35'101-106;L {~OCD_p.} |
| 11 | GRE ?? Nicias refuses to sell his picture of the Visit to the Dead to Ptolemaeus.
@ Plin:HN_35'132;L Plut:Mor_1093'E. |
| 12 | ++ General comments on the character and art of the painter Nicias of Athens.
@ Plin:HN_35'38,L '130-134;L Plut:Mor_786'B-C; {~OCD_n.} |
| 13 | PEL << Demetrius leaves Pyrrhus in charge of his garrisons in Greece, and sails to the Chersonese in order to attack Lysimachus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Pyrrh_4'5, ~:Demetr_31'1-4;* {Green_689.} |
| 14 | CYR << Magas becomes governor of Cyrene.
* Read Pausanias' account @ ~Paus_1.6'8;* Athen_12.550'b; {Green_689; Holbl_p20.} |
| 15 | EPI Agathocles attacks Ithaca.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Mor_176'F,* 557'B-C; {Probably around the same time as the capture of Corcyra.} |
| 16 | SYR >> The foundation of the other two cities of the Syrian tetrapolis, Apameia and Laodiceia.
* Read Malalas' account @ Strab_16.749'e-750'a;(2.4) Ampel_31'1; ~Malal_202-203;* GeorgMon_p285'b; {~CAH_7.1'60.} |
| 17 | ROM >> The Lex Ogulnia is passed, enabling plebeians to become priests for the first time.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_10.6'3-9'2;* [Vict]:VirIll_34'3<v>;L {CAH_7.2'398; OCD_o.} |
| 18 | >> The Lex Valeria de Provocatione gives Roman citizens a right of appeal against capital punishment imposed by magistrates.
@ +Liv_10.9'3-6; {CAH_7.2'400; OCD_lex.} |
| 19 | >> P.Titinius Mena brings the first barber to Rome.
@ +Plin:HN_7'211.L |
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