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| 1 | ASI << Demetrius wins over Ionia and Sardis.
* Read Plutarch's account @ OGIS_12<t= BD_11B>; ~Plut:Demetr_46'6;* { Green_129.} |
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| 1a | ?? Document: SEG_44.949, a decree of Teos concerning a large ransom to be paid to pirates. |
| 2 | GRE << An unsuccessful attempt by the Athenians to capture Peiraeus.
* Read Polyaenus' account @ THI_81; Paus_1.29'10; Polyaen_5.17'1;* { Green_130.} |
| 3 | MES ?? Antiochus, the son of Seleucus, settles Greeks from Babylon in Seleuceia.
* Read Pausanias' account @ BabylChron_5; Paus_1.16'3.* |
| 4 | AEG ?? Theophrastus and Phanias free their home city, Eresus, from a tyrant.
@ Plut:Mor_1097'B, 1126'F. |
| 5 | GRE ?? Arcesilaus leaves Theophrastus and joins the Academics.
* Read Diogenes' account @ Phld:Acad_17;B DiogLaert_4'22, '29-30.* |
| 6 | ?? Bion of Borysthenes, when still young, attaches himself to several different philosophers, including Crates, Theodorus, and Theophrastus.
@ Phld:Acad_S;B DiogLaert_4'51-52. |
| 7 | ?? Theophrastus falls silent while addressing the Areopagus.
* Read Aelian's account @ Gell_8.cap'9; Aelian:VH_8'12.* |
| 8 | ?? Sophocles son of Amphicleides attempts to pass a law banishing all philosophers from Attica.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ Athen_13.610'e-f;* DiogLaert_5'38. |
| 9 | ?? An old woman realizes that Theophrastus is not a native Attic speaker.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Brut_172;* Quint_8.1'2. |
| 10 | ?? A comment by Zenon on the number of Theophrastus' followers.
@ Plut:Mor_78'D,(6) 545'F. |
| 11 | ?? Sayings of Theophrastus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Mor_633'B;* (Q2.1) DiogLaert_5'40. |
| 12 | ++ General comments on the character and appearance of Theophrastus.
* Read Diogenes' account @ Athen_1.21'a-b; DiogLaert_5'36-37,* '39; Suda_Th'199. |
| 13 | << The death of Theophrastus, who is succeeded as leader of the Peripatetics by Straton.
* Read Diogenes' account @ DiogLaert_5'40-41,* +'58<q" Apollod:Fr_40>; Cic:Tusc_3'69; Strab_13'608-609;(1.54) ClemAl:Strom_1'14;(↓) Suda_S'1185, Th'199, Th'200; { CAH_7.1'323; OCD_t.} |
| 14 | THR << Lysimacheia is damaged by an earthquake.
@ ~Just_17.1'1-3; { 22 years after the foundation of the city.} |
| 15 | << Lysimachus kills Antipater, son of Cassander.
* Read Justin's account @ ~Diod_21.7'1; ~Just_16.2'4-5;* [Euseb]:Chron_231.(↓) |
| 16 | ASI Demetrius marches inland, pursued by Agathocles son of Lysimachus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Demetr_46'7-10;* Polyaen_4.7'12; { CAH_7.1'108; Errington_p58.} |
| 16a | GRE {11 Hecatombaeon -G = July/August} Document: Syll_367, an Athenian decree in honour of Zenon, an officer of Ptolemy. |
| 16b | << Document: SEG_67.253, inscriptions of Acraephia in Boeotia, honouring men who served in war against Demetrius. |
| 16c | AEG ?? Document: OGIS_773, a decree of the island of Ios in honour of Zenon. |
| 17 | GRE The Athenians recall Demochares from exile.
@ +Plut:Mor_851'E; { When Diocles was archon; OCD_d?288/7.} |
| 18 | MAC Pyrrhus attacks Demetrius' garrisons in Thessaly.
@ ~Plut:Pyrrh_12'8. |
| 19 | CIL Negotiations between Demetrius and Seleucus.
@ ~Plut:Demetr_47'1-6. |
| 20 | Inconclusive fighting between the armies of Demetrius and Seleucus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Demetr_48'1-4;* Polyaen_4.9'2, '5. |
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