320 B.C. Olympiad 115.1Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ROM New consuls are elected and take office the same day, when the senate debates the Caudine treaty.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:Off_3'109;L +Liv_9.7'14-10'5;* Ampel_20'10; DioCass_fr.36'17-18, 45.32'4; [Vict]:VirIll_30'4;L Eutrop_2.9'1, 10.17'2; Zonar_7.26'm-p. |
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| 2 | CAP Eumenes is trapped and defeated by Antigonus at Orcynia.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Diod_18.40'1-8, 53'4; Nepos_18.5'2-3; ~Plut:Eum_9'1-5;* Just_14.2'1-2; Trog:Prol_14; Oros_3.23'24.L |
| 3 | ITA The Romans attempt to hand over Postumius and others responsible for the treaty to the Samnites, but the Samnites refuse to accept them.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:Off_3'109;L +Liv_9.10'6-12'4;* ValMax_6.1'9;L Flor_1.11'11;L Ampel_20'10; Gell_17.21'36;L DioCass_fr.36'19-21; Eutrop_2.9'1; Oros_3.15'8;L Zonar_7.26'p. |
| 4 | PEL ?? Satyrus of Elis wins two Olympic victories for boxing.
@ Paus_6.4'5; {A statue of Satyrus was attributed to Silanion, who was active in the 320's (OCD_silanion).} |
| 5 | CAP Eumenes secretly prevents his soldiers from attacking Antigonus' baggage.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Eum_9'6-12;* Polyaen_4.8'5. |
| 6 | ITA The Samnites capture Fregellae.
@ +Liv_9.12'5-8; {CAH_7.2'372.} |
| 7 | CAP Eumenes withstands a siege by Antigonus at Nora.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Diod_18.41'1-42'5, 53'4-5; Nepos_18.5'4-7; Strab_12.537'b;(2.6) Frontin:Str_4.7'34; ~Plut:Eum_10'1-11'9;* Just_14.2'3-4; Oros_3.23'24;L {~CAH_7.1'40; Green_17<319>.} |
| 8 | SIC Acestorides expels Agathocles from Syracuse.
@ ~Diod_19.5'1-3; {~CAH_7.1'387; Green_684.} |
| 9 | ITA Publilius defeats the Samnites.
@ +Liv_9.12'9-13. |
| 10 | Papirius (acting as either consul or magister equitum) captures Luceria and forces the Samnite defenders to pass under a yoke.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_9.13'6-15'9,* 22.14'12, 25.6'12; FGrH_255'10; +FastCap_p46; Flor_1.11'11;L Ampel_18'7; DioCass_fr.36'22; Eutrop_2.9'1; Oros_3.15'9-10;L Zonar_9.26'q; {CAH_7.2'661.} |
| 11 | << C.Pontius asks for a six hours' truce.
@ Gell_1.25'6<q" Quadrigar>. |
| 12 | ROM T.Manlius Torquatus is appointed dictator, to hold the elections for new consuls.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_9.15'11;* +FastCap_p46. |
| 13 | ASI ?? General comments on the life and writings of Anaximenes of Lampsacus, and of his pupil Timolaus.
* Read Suda's account @ Suda_A'1989,* T'626; {OCD_a.} |
| 14 | PEL ++ General remarks on the art and life of the painter Pausias of Sicyon.
@ Plin:HN_35'123-127;L {~OCD_p..} |
| 15 | GRE ?? A remark of the painter Nicomachus, about the "Helen" of Zeuxis.
@ Plut:Fr_134; Aelian:VH_14'47; {Nicomachus is said by Plinius (36'108-110) to have been a (slightly older) contemporary of Protogenes, and the teacher of Philoxenus.} |
| 16 | ?? Crates the cynic philosopher denounces a statue of Phryne at Delphi.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Mor_336'D,* 401'A; Athen_13.591'b; Aelian:VH_9'32; DiogLaert_6'60;(D.6) {Phryne lived during the reigns of Philippus and Alexander; Diogenes Laertius attributes this remark to Crates' mentor, Diogenes.} |
| 17 | ?? Lais (or Phryne) fails to tempt Xenocrates.
@ DiogLaert_4'7.(X.3) |
| 18 | AEG ?? Apelles' painting of "Aphrodite Anadyomene" is allegedly a portrait of Phryne (or Pancaspe).
@ Plin:HN_35'87,L '91;L ClemAl:Protr_4.47'c; Arnob_6'13. |
| 19 | CYR ?? Eubotas of Cyrene refuses to marry Lais.
@ Aelian:VH_10'2. |
| 20 | MAC ++ General comments on the life and character of Lais.
@ Lucian:Epigr_33. |
| 21 | ?? The courtesan Lais is murdered in Thessaly.
@ Athen_13.589'a-b; {This Lais was a contemporary of Phryne (eg. Athen_13.588'e); there was another courtesan called Lais, who lived at the time of the Peloponnesian War.} |
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