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| 1 | CAP << Antigonus sends Hieronymus to end the siege of Eumenes.
* Read Plutarch's account @ +Diod_18.50'1-5, 53'1-7, 19.44'2; Nepos_18.5'7; Plut:Eum_12'1-7;* Just_14.2'4-5; Oros_3.23'24; { ~CAH_7.1'41; Anson_x.} |
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| 2 | GRE << Nicanor captures Peiraeus, with the collusion of Phocion.
* Read Plutarch's account @ +Diod_18.64'1-65'2; Nepos_19.2'4-5; Plut:Phoc_32'1-10;* Aelian:VH_3'47; { Anson_x.} |
| 3 | Document: Syll_315, an Athenian decree, in response to a recommendation by Polyperchon. |
| 4 | SYR Ptolemy gains control of Syria after expelling the satrap Laomedon.
* Read Diodorus' account @ Diod_18.43'1-2;* +MarmPar_B'12; Appian:Syr_52; Paus_1.6'4; { Hölbl_p16; Anson_x.} |
| 5 | PAL Ptolemy captures Jerusalem.
@ !Hieron:Chron_1695; { CAH_7.1'41-42.} |
| 6 | ASI Arrhidaeus attacks Cyzicus, but fails to capture it.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +MarmPar_B'12; +Diod_18.51'1-52'4;* Polyaen_7.30'1; Athen_11.509'a; { Anson_x} |
| 7 | Antigonus attacks Ephesus and Lydia.
@ +Diod_18.52'5-8; { Errington_p23; Anson_x.} |
| 8 | Cassander goes to Asia to seek help from Antigonus for a war against Polyperchon.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +MarmPar_B'12; +Diod_18.54'1-4;* { Errington_p23; Anson_x=319/8.} |
| 9 | MAC Polyperchon announces his support for democracies in the Greek states.
@ +Diod_18.55'1-57'1; { Errington_p24; Anson_x=319/8.} |
| 10 | Polyperchon invites Olympias to return to Macedonia.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_18.57'2;* Just_14.5'1; { Green_18.} |
| 11 | Polyperchon and Olympias appoint Eumenes to be commander of the Macedonian forces in Asia.
* Read Diodorus' account @ ~FGrH_155.3'1-2; +Diod_18.57'3-4;* Nepos_18.6'1-5; Plut:Eum_13'1-2; { Errington_p25-26; Anson_x.} |
| 12 | AEG << A letter from king Philippus confirms that exiles from Eresus cannot return to their city.
@ OGIS_8.C; { The exiles probably made an appeal following the pronouncement of Polyperchon (Diod_18.56).} |
| 13 | ASI ++ Gryllion is the parasite of the satrap Menander.
@ Athen_6.245'a; { Antigonus used Menander as a general against Eumenes (eg. Diod_18.59'1).} |
| 14 | CIL Eumenes gains the loyalty of the "Silver Shields" by invoking the name of Alexander.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_18.59'1-61'3;* Nepos_18.7'1-3; Strab_14'672;(5.10) Plut:Eum_13'3-8; Polyaen_4.8'2; Just_14.2'6-12; Oros_3.23'25; { ~CAH_7.1'45; Anson_x.} |
| 15 | ITA A two years' truce between the Romans and the Samnites.
@ +Liv_9.20'1-3; { CAH_7.2'371.} |
| 16 | GRE Alexander the son of Polyperchon arrives in Attica; Polyperchon hands over Phocion and his friends to the Athenians.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_18.65'3-66'3;* Nepos_19.3'1-4; Plut:Phoc_33'1-12; Suda_D'333; { Errington_p24: Anson_x.} |
| 17 | ?? Sayings of Phocion, addressed to Archibiades, Aristogeiton, Callicles, Polyeuctus, and others.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ValMax_3.8e'2; Plut:Phoc_5'8, 8'5, 9'1-10'3, 10'8-9, :Mor_187'E-189'A,* 533'A, 810'D, 822'E; Aelian:VH_2'16. |
| 18 | ?? Phocion is distressed by the prodigality of his son Phocus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Phoc_20'1-5,* 38'3-4; Athen_4.168'e-169'a. |
| 19 | ++ The just and incorruptible character of Phocion.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Nepos_19.1'1-2; Plut:Phoc_1'4, 3'4-9, 4'2-5'8,* 8'1-4, 10'7, 11'1, 29'4-30'7, ? :Mor_803'E, 809'D-E; Aelian:VH_7'9. |
| 20 | {19 Munychion -G = May} The Athenians condemn Phocion and put him to death.
* Read Plutarch's account @ +Diod_18.66'4-67'6; Nepos_19.4'1-4; #Plut:Phoc_34'1-38'5,* :Mor_189'A, 541'C; Aelian:NA_12'6, :VH_3'47, 12'49, 13'41; { CAH_7.1'493; Errington_p24-25.} |
| 22 | CIL Eumenes gathers a large force of mercenaries, despite the opposition of Ptolemy and Antigonus.
@ +Diod_18.61'4-63'6. |
| 23 | GRE Cassander arrives at Peiraeus with a force provided by Antigonus.
@ +Diod_18.68'1-3; { CAH_7.1'493; Anson_x.} |
| 24 | << Deinarchus becomes an influential speaker at Athens.
* Read Plutarch's account @ DionHal:Din_2; Plut:Mor_850'C;* { Soon after the death of Antipater.} |
| 25 | EXT ?? Eudamus murders Porus.
@ ~Diod_19.4'8; { This happened at some unspecified time before the arrival of Eumenes in the Eastern provinces.} |
| 26 | ASI ?? Anaxarchus falls into a swamp, but Pyrrhon refuses to help him.
@ DiogLaert_9'63. |
| 27 | CYR ?? The philosopher Anaxarchus is captured and cruelly put to death by Nicocreon.
* Read Diogenes' account @ Cic:ND_3'82; Ovid:Ib_569-570; ValMax_3.3e'4; Plin:HN_7'87; Plut:Mor_449'E; Tert:Apol_50'6; ClemAl:Strom_4'8; DiogLaert_9'59-60;* { Probably only a few years after the death of Alexander.} |
| 28 | ITA Teanum and Canusium surrender to the Romans.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.10'2;* +Liv_9.20'4; { CAH_7.2'371.} |
| 29 | GRE Cassander attacks the island of Salamis, but is forced back by Polyperchon.
@ +Diod_18.69'1-2. |
| 30 | PEL Polyperchon fails to capture Megalopolis.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_18.68'3, 69'3-72'1;* Polyaen_4.14'1. |
| 31 | PHO Eumenes attempts to gain control of Phoenicia.
@ +Diod_18.63'6; { CAH_7.1'45; Anson_x.} |
| 32 | AEG Nicanor suffers an initial defeat, but by the intervention of Antigonus completely overwhelms the fleet of Polyperchon in the Hellespont.
* Read Diodorus' account @ (?) OGIS_4.A'23-25; +MarmPar_B'13; +Diod_18.72'2-9;* Polyaen_4.6'8; Trog:Prol_14; { ~CAH_7.1'44; Errington_p26=317; Anson_xi=317.} |
| 33 | CIL Antigonus sends a force through Cilicia to attack Eumenes.
@ +Diod_18.73'1. |
| 34 | A squadron of Phoenician ships surrenders to Antigonus' fleet at Rhossus.
@ Polyaen_4.6'9; { This was shortly after Antigonus' victory at the Hellespont.} |
| 35 | MES {Sept./Oct.} Seleucus forces the Babylonians to pay for the upkeep of his army.
@ +BabylChron_3'O29-31. |
| 36 | ASI {Dius -M} Document: SEG_26.1228, a decree of the city of Coaranza in Caria. |
| 37 | GRE {end of Maemacterion -G = December} Document: Syll_317, an Athenian decree in honour of Euphron of Sicyon. { Errington_p25.} |
| 38 | ITA >> The Romans intervene in civil discord in Capua.
@ +Liv_9.20'5; { Green_685.} |
| 39 | ROM >> Two new Roman tribes are created, Ufentina and Falerna.
* Read Diodorus' account @ +Diod_19.10'2;* +Liv_9.20'6; { CAH_7.2'371.} |
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