315 B.C. Olympiad 116.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | GRE << The Thebans demand repayment of an old loan made to the Thessalians.
@ Quint_5.10'111-118. | ||||||||
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| 2 | MES << Seleucus is visited by Antigonus at Babylon.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.55'1-3;* Appian:Syr_53'a-b. | ||||||||
| 3 | ++ Seleucus wins the support of his subjects by his conduct as satrap of Babylonia.
@ +Diod_19.91'2. | ||||||||
| 4 | EGY Seleucus takes refuge with Ptolemaeus, in anticipation of an attack by Antigonus.
* Read Diodorus' account @ BabylChron_BM.35920; +Diod_19.55'4-56'1,* 86'4; Appian:Syr_53'b; Paus_1.6'4; {CAH_7.1'46; Green_23.} | ||||||||
| 5 | Seleucus attempts to organize a coalition against Antigonus in the west.
@ +Diod_19.56'1-4. | ||||||||
| 6 | ITA Q.Aulius, the Roman magister equitum, is killed in fighting near Saticula.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_9.22'1-10;* +FastCap_p46. | ||||||||
| 7 | MAC << Cassander founds the city of Thessalonice.
* Read Strabo's account @ ~FGrH_155.2'4; Strab_7.fr'21,* (7.12) '24;(7.12) Julian:Or_3.107'D; Malal_190; Suda_Th'260; {CAH_7.1'494.} | ||||||||
| 8 | GRE << The "floruit" of Menedemus.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1701. | ||||||||
| 9 | ASI << The birth of the philosopher Arcesilaus.
@ ~DiogLaert_4'44;(A.20) {OCD_a; Green_606.} | ||||||||
| 10 | PON ++ Dionysius Metathemenos as a pupil of Heracleides.
* Read Diogenes' account @ DiogLaert_5'92-93,* (H.7) 7'166; Suda_P'449. | ||||||||
| 11 | ?? The death of the philosopher Heracleides Ponticus.
* Read Diogenes' account @ DiogLaert_5'90-91;* (H.6) Suda_H'461; {~OCD_h.} | ||||||||
| 12 | SYR Antigonus rejects an ultimatum from Ptolemaeus, Seleucus, and Cassander.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.57'1-5;* Appian:Syr_53'c; Just_15.1'1-5; Oros_3.23'33-35;L {CAH_7.1'494; Green_23.} | ||||||||
| 13 | PHO Antigonus builds a new navy in Phoenicia.
@ +Diod_19.58'1-6; {Green_23<314>.} | ||||||||
| 14 | PAL Antigonus expels Ptolemaeus' garrisons from Joppa and Gaza.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.59'1-3;* Appian:Syr_53'c-d; {~CAH_7.1'46; Green_23.} | ||||||||
| 15 | PEL Aristodemus is sent by Antigonus to the Peloponnese, and gives help to Polyperchon.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.60'1, 63'1-3;* {~CAH_7.1'47; Green_686<314>.} | ||||||||
| 16 | ASI Ptolemaeus, the general of Antigonus, advances as far as Ionia.
@ +Diod_19.60'2-4. | ||||||||
| 17 | ETR The Samnites capture Plistica, and the Romans capture Saticula.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.72'3-4;* +Liv_9.22'11; {CAH_7.2'372.} | ||||||||
| 18 | PEL Cassander invades the Peloponnese.
@ +Diod_19.63'4-64'1. | ||||||||
| 19 | SIC Agathocles attacks Messene.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.65'1-6;* Polyaen_5.15'1; {CAH_7.1'390.} | ||||||||
| 20 | PHO Antigonus declares Cassander a public enemy, and promises freedom to the Greek states; then he starts to besiege Tyre.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.61'1-5,* 66'3; {CAH_7.1'47; Green_24<314/3>.} | ||||||||
| 21 | ETR Roman colonists are massacred at Sora, which defects to the Samnites.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.72'3;* +Liv_9.23'2; {CAH_7.2'662.} | ||||||||
| 22 | PEL Alexander is persuaded to change sides by Cassander.
@ +Diod_19.64'2-5; {Green_27.} | ||||||||
| 23 | ETR The Samnites defeat the Romans at Lautulae.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.72'5-8;* +Liv_9.23'1-6; {CAH_7.2'372.} | ||||||||
| 24 | The dictator Q.Fabius defeats the Samnites near Sora.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_9.23'7-17;* Frontin:Str_1.11'21. | ||||||||
| 25 | ETR Fabius punishes the soldiers who were defeated by the Samnites.
@ Frontin:Str_4.1'35. | ||||||||
| 26 | EGY Ptolemaeus sends out Myrmidon, Polycleitus, Menelaus, and Seleucus to attack Antigonus in different areas.
@ +Diod_19.62'1-9. | ||||||||
| 27 | CIL Polycleitus defeats Theodotus, the admiral of Antigonus, near Aphrodisias.
@ +Diod_19.64'5-8. | ||||||||
| 28 | ETR The land round Ardea in Latium is laid waste by the Samnites.
* Read Strabo's account @ Strab_5.232'd,* (3.5) 249'c;(4.11) {CAH_7.2'372.} | ||||||||
| 29 | AEG ?? A remark of Aeschines about a speech of Demosthenes: "What if you had heard the beast himself?".
* Read Plutarch's account @ ValMax_8.10e'1;L Plin:HN_7'110;L Quint_11.3'7; Plinius:Ep_2.3'10; Plut:Mor_840'D-E.* | ||||||||
| 30 | ?? Aeschines introduces the study of rhetoric at Rhodes.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Quint_12.10'19; Plut:Mor_840'D-E;* Suda_Ai'348. | ||||||||
| 31 | ++ A description of a statue of Aeschines.
@ AnthPal_2'13-16. | ||||||||
| 32 | << The death of Aeschines, at Samos.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Mor_840'E;* Suda_Ai'347; {CAH_7.1'494; OCD_a 33
| PEL ?? Chares learns the art of sculpture as a pupil of Lysippus.
| @ [Cic]:RhetHer_4'9. 34
| ?? Lysippus acknowledges the "Doryphoros" of Polycleitus as his model in sculpture.
| @ Cic:Brut_296.L 35
| ++ General comments on the art and character of Lysippus.
| @ Petron:Sat_88'b; Plin:HN_34'37,L '61-65;L Lucian:JTrag_9; {~CAH_6'659; OCD_l.} 36
| ?? Lysistratus the brother of Lysippus develops a technique of taking plaster casts from living faces and from statues.
| @ Plin:HN_35'153.L |
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