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| 1 | ROM P.Scipio is appointed dictator in order to preside over elections for new consuls.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_9.44'1-4;* +FastCap_p48. |
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| 1a | EGY {Choiak -E = Feb./March} Document: AET_1.10, the colophon to an Egyptian manuscript of religious texts. |
| 2 | AEG Antigonus decides to attack Rhodes.
* Read Diodorus' account @ FGrH_523'III; +Diod_20.81'1-82'3;* Paus_1.6'6; { Green_32.} |
| 2a | GRE Document: IG_2.471, an Athenian decree in honour of residents at the court of Antigonus and Demetrius. |
| 3 | CYR ++ Callimachus, grandfather of Callimachus the poet, is a general in the army of Cyrene.
@ Callim:Epigr_23'3-4; { Callimachus the poet was probably born around this time.} |
| 4 | PON ?? The prosperous reign of Dionysius of Heracleia, aided by his wife Amastris.
@ Memn_4'5-7. |
| 5 | ++ The gluttony of Dionysius.
@ Athen_12.549'a-d. |
| 6 | << The death of Dionysius, tyrant of Heracleia, who is succeeded by his sons Oxathras and Clearchus.
* Read Memnon's account @ ~Diod_16.88'5, +20.77'1; Memn_4'8-9;* Trog:Prol_16; { OCD³.} |
| 7 | SIC << The birth of Hieron, the future king of Syracuse.
* Read Justin's account @ ~ValMax_8.13e'1; ~Lucian:Macr_10; Just_23.4'3-8;* { Green_688.} |
| 8 | << The (?) birth of the poet Sosiphanes.
@ +MarmPar_B'22. |
| 8a | GRE << The Athenians strengthen their city walls.
@ +Syll_346; |
| 8b | << Document: Syll_327, an Athenian decree in honour of Timosthenes of Carystus. |
| 8c | ASI ?? Document: Syll_330, a decree of Ilium in honour of Malusius of Gargara. |
| 9 | SIC << Document: GRA_3611 (Syll_1097), a decree of an association of "orgeones" concerning the sanctuary of Egretes in Attica. |
| 10 | AEG Demetrius arrives at Rhodes and begins to besiege the city.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +MarmPar_B'23; +Diod_20.82'4-84'6,* 100'1; { CAH_7.1'56; Errington_p49.} |
| 11 | The goddess Athena appears to Callicles in a dream, and advises the Rhodians to appeal to Ptolemy for help.
@ ~Burstein_46.D'3.B |
| 11a | << Document: IG_11.4.1036, a decree of the League of Islanders at Delos, in honour of Demetrius. { Soon after the victory of Demetrius at Salamis - see Tarn, Antigonos Gonatas, p79.} |
| 11b | << Document: THI_190, a decree of Samos honouring the actor Polus of Aegina. |
| 12 | ITA The Roman consuls defeat the Samnites and capture Bovianum.
* Read Livy's account @ +Diod_20.90'4; +Liv_9.44'5-14;* { CAH_7.2'375.} |
| 13 | Minucius is wounded in battle, and later dies; M.Fulvius is elected consul in his place.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_9.44'15;* +FastCap_p48. |
| 14 | SIC Agathocles defeats Deinocrates at Torgium.
@ +Diod_20.89'1-5; { CAH_7.1'496.} |
| 15 | GRE << The Athenian general Olympiodorus defeats the army of Cassander at Elateia, with help from the Aetolians.
* Read Pausanias' account @ Syll_361'B; Paus_1.15'1, 26'3, 29'8, 10.18'7, 34'2-3;* { OCD³; Tarn, Antigonos Gonatas, p95=301.} |
| 16 | ITA The Romans capture Sora, Arpinum, and Cesennia.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_20.90'4;* +Liv_9.44'16; { CAH_7.2'375.} |
| 17 | AEG The Rhodians repel Demetrius' first attack on their harbour.
@ +Diod_20.85'1-87'4. |
| 18 | SYR Antigonus attempts to persuade Rhodian expatriates not to return home.
@ Polyaen_4.6'16. |
| 19 | SIC Deinocrates deserts his allies, and becomes a general of Agathocles.
@ +Diod_20.90'1-2. |
| 20 | ROM {5 October -R} The consuls celebrate a triumph over the Samnites.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_9.44'14;* #FastTr_p96. |
| 20a | ASI ?? Document: THI_12, a treaty between the city of Iasus, Ptolemy and others. { Errington_p72.} |
| 21 | AEG The Rhodians repel another attack by Demetrius, by land and sea; after which they receive reinforcements from Ptolemy and from the city of Cnossus.
@ +Diod_20.88'1-9. |
| 22 | EGY Ptolemy proclaims himself king.
* Read Plutarch's account @ +AstrCan_3; ~FGrH_155.1'7, 523'II; +MarmPar_B'23; Diod_20.53'3, 54'1; Plut:Demetr_18'2;* Appian:Syr_54; Just_15.2'11; ~[Euseb]:Chron_161; { Hölbl_p20-22=306; Bennett?304.} |
| 23 | SYR Seleucus proclaims himself king, and is given the epithet Nicator.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +BabylChron_BM.35603'O7; ~FGrH_155.1'7; Diod_20.53'4-54'1;* Plut:Demetr_18'3; Appian:Syr_57; Sulpit_2'17; { CAH_7.1'58; Green_29.} |
| 24 | MAC Cassander and Lysimachus take the title of king.
* Read Justin's account @ ~FGrH_155.1'7; Diod_20.53'4-54'1; ~Plut:Demetr_18'3-4; ~Just_15.2'12-14;* Oros_3.23'40; { CAH_7.1'58; Errington_p44?306.} |
| 25 | AEG Demetrius constructs a large siege engine, which is called a Helepolis.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_20.91'1-8;* Vitr_10.16'3-6; Plut:Demetr_21'1-6; Athen_5.206'd; AmmMarc_23.4'10, 24.2'18; { Green_32.} |
| 26 | Demetrius begins to be called Poliorcetes, "the Besieger".
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_20.92'1-5;* Gell_15.31'1; [Euseb]:Chron_247;(↓) AmmMarc_23.4'10, 24.2'18. |
| 26a | GRE == Document: Syll_334, the accounts of the treasurers of the goddess at Athens. |
| 27 | PEL ?? Sayings of Eudamidas I, king of Sparta.
@ Plut:Mor_220'E-221'A. |
| 28 | ++ The peaceful reign of Eudamidas I.
@ Paus_3.10'5; { OCD³.} |
| 29 | EGY ++ The courtesan Thais lives with Ptolemy and bears him three children.
@ Athen_13.576'e; { Thais had accompanied Alexander during his conquest of Persia, so her association with Ptolemy probably belongs to the early part of his reign.} |
| 30 | ROM ?? An earthquake at Rome.
@ ~DionHal_16.6'1-2; { From its position in the fragments of Dionysius, this appears to be dated to the period of the Second Samnite War..} |
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