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315 B.C. Olympiad 116.2


Consuls: L. Papirius Sp.f. Cursor (IV), Q. Publilius Q.f. Philo (IV)
Athenian archon: Praxibulus

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1 GRE << Cassander refounds Thebes, but Crates refuses to take part in the resettlement.
* Read Diodorus' account
PsCallisth_1'47; +MarmPar_B'14; Polyb_38.3'1; +Diod_19.53'1-3, 54'1-3, 61'2; Prop_2.6'5-6; Strab_9'403;(2.5)  Plut:Demetr_40'6, :Mor_814'B; Paus_7.6'9, 9.3'6, 7'1-4; Aelian:VH_3'6; { CAH_7.1'292=316; Errington_p31; Anson_xi.}
1a The Thebans demand repayment of an old loan made to the Thessalians.
Quint_5.10'111-118.
1b EGY {Hathyr -E = Jan./Feb.} Document: AET_7.8'B, a demotic marriage contract.
2 MES Seleucus is visited by Antigonus at Babylon.
* Read Diodorus' account
+Diod_19.55'1-3; Appian:Syr_53; { Errington_p29.}
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 Ptolemy, in anticipation of an attack by Antigonus.
* Read Diodorus' account
+Diod_19.55'4-56'1, 86'4; Appian:Syr_53; Paus_1.6'4; Liban:Or_11'77-78,B  '80-82;B  { CAH_7.1'46; Errington_p29.}
4a PEL Cassander invades the Peloponnese, and wins over Argos and most of Messenia.
+Diod_19.54'3-4; { Anson_xi.}
5 ITA Q.Aulius, the Roman magister equitum, is killed in fighting near Saticula.
* Read Livy's account
+Liv_9.22'1-10; +FastCap_p46.
6 EGY Seleucus attempts to organize a coalition against Antigonus in the west.
+Diod_19.56'1-4.
7 MAC << Cassander founds the city of Thessalonice.
* Read Strabo's account
~FGrH_155.2'4; Strab_7.fr'1,(7.12)  '24;(7.12)  Julian:Or_3.107'D; Malal_190; Suda_Th'260; { CAH_7.1'494; Errington_p28; Anson_xi.}
8 GRE << The "floruit" of Menedemus.
+Hieron:Chron_1701.
9 ASI << The birth of the philosopher Arcesilaus.
~DiogLaert_4'44; { OCD³; Green_606.}
10 PON ++ Dionysius Metathemenos as a pupil of Heracleides.
* Read Diogenes' account
DiogLaert_5'92-93, 7'166; Suda_P'449.
11 ?? The death of the philosopher Heracleides Ponticus.
* Read Diogenes' account
Phld:Acad_9-10; DiogLaert_5'90-91; Suda_H'461; { OCD³.}
12 SYR Antigonus rejects an ultimatum from Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Cassander.
* Read Diodorus' account
+Diod_19.57'1-5; Appian:Syr_53;(↓)  Just_15.1'1-5; Oros_3.23'33-35; { CAH_7.1'494; Errington_p29; Anson_xi=314.}
13 PHO >> Antigonus builds a new navy in Phoenicia.
+Diod_19.58'1-6; { Errington_p29=315/4; Green_23=314.}
14 PAL Antigonus expels Ptolemy's garrisons from Joppa and Gaza.
* Read Diodorus' account
@  (?) Syll_409'7-9; +Diod_19.59'1-3; Appian:Syr_53;(↓)  { ~CAH_7.1'46; Anson_xi=314; for possible Athenian support of Antigonus, see T.L.Shear, "Kallias of Sphettos", p.9.}
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; { Errington_p19=315/4; Anson_xi=314.}
16 ASI Ptolemaeus, the general of Antigonus, frees Chalcedon from a siege by Zipoetes of Bithynia.
+Diod_19.60'2-4; Plut:Mor_302'E-303'A.(49) 
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; Errington_p30-31=314; Anson_xi=314.}
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; { Errington_p32=313; Anson_xii=313.}
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 Ptolemy 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; { Anson_xii=313.}
28 ETR The land round Ardea in Latium is laid waste by the Samnites.
* Read Strabo's account
Strab_5'232,(3.5)  '249;(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; Plin:HN_7'110; 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
Vit:Aeschin_6; 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; OCD³=c.322.}
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.
35 ++ General comments on the art and character of Lysippus.
Petron:Sat_88; Plin:HN_34'37, '61-65; Lucian:JTrag_9; { ~CAH_6'659; OCD³.}
36 ?? Lysistratus the brother of Lysippus develops a technique of taking plaster casts from living faces and from statues.
Plin:HN_35'153.

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