xcv. 1. xcvi. 1.

354

358

xcvi. 2.

359

xcvi. 3.

360

xcvii. 3.

xcviii. 1.

c. 4.

which puts an end to the Peloponnesian war. Age of Parrhasius, Protagoras, Lysias, Agathon, Cebes.

401 Cyrus the younger killed at

Cunaxa..

Retreat of the

10,000 Greeks. Expulsion
of the thirty tyrants from
Athens by Thrasybulus.

400 Socrates put to death.
396 Expedition of Agesilaus into
Asia. Age of Xenophon,
Zeuxis, Aristippus, and Ar-
chytas.

395 Corinthian war begun by the
alliances of the Athenians,
Thebans, Corinthians, and
Argives against the Lace-
dæmonians.

394 Conon defeats the Lacedæmonian fleet near Cnidus. The allies defeated by Agesilaus in the battle of Coronea. 364 390 Rome burnt by the Gauls. Age of Plato, Conon, Iphicrates, Camillus.

366 388 Peace of Antalcidas, which made the Greek cities in Asia Minor tributary to the Persians.

377 377 Lacedæmonians defeated off Naxus by Chabrias. Age of Isæus, İsocrates, Diogenes, &c.

cii. 2.

383

cii. 3.

384

371 The Lacedæmonians defeated by the Thebans, commanded by Epaminondas, at the battle of Leuctra.

370 Messenians return to the Pelo-.

ponnese, having been banished 300 years.

JA. v. c. B. C.
387

391

civ. 3.

392

cv. 1.

394

cv. 4.

367 One of the consuls at Rome elected from the Plebeians.

363 Lacedæmonians defeated by Epaminondas at the battle of Mantinea. Death of Epaminondas a year after that of Pelopidas.

362 Agesilaus goes into Egypt, and dies on his return home.

360 Athenians defeated at Methone by Philip of Macedon, being the first battle he gained in Greece.

397 357 Second sacred war begun; the

Phocians having attacked the temple of Delphi.

353 Philip defeats the Phocians commanded by Onomarchus. 348 Philip puts an end to the sacred

war.

343 Timoleon banishes Dionysius the younger tyrant of Syracuse. Age of Speusippus, Protogenes, Aristotle, Eschines, Demosthenes, Phocion, &c.

338 Philip defeats the Athenians
and their allies in the fatal
battle of Charonea.

336 Philip killed by Pausanias.
335 Alexander destroys Thebes.
334 Alexander begins his Persian
expedition. Battle of the
Granicus.

333 Battle of Issus.

332 Tyre taken and destroyed by Alexander: Alexandria in Egypt founded by him.

331 Battle of Arbela. End of the Persian, and commencement of the Grecian empire..

Ol. cxiii. 2.

JA. U.C.B.C.

427

cxiv. 2.

431

cxiv. 4.

433

cxv. 1.

434

cxvi. 2. 439

cxvii. 1. 442

cxviii. 2.

327 Alexander's expedition against Porus. Age of Apelles, Hyperides, Lysippus, &c.

323 Alexander dies May 21. Kingdom of Egypt founded by Ptolemy.

321 Romans defeated by the Samnites at Caudium.

320 Polyperchon publishes liberty to all the Grecian cities. Age of Praxiteles, Menander, Demetrius Phalereus. 315 Eumenes delivered to Antigonus by his army.

312 Seleucus takes Babylon. Commencement of the æra of the Seleucidæ.

447 307 Democracy re-established at Athens by Demetrius Poli

cxviii. 3.

448

cxix. 4. 453

cxxii. 2.

463

cxxiv. 1. 470

orcetes.

306 Alexander's successors assume
the title of kings.

301 Battle of Ipsus, in which Anti-
gonus is defeated and killed
by Ptolemy, Seleucus, Lysi-
machus, and Cassander. Age
of Zeno, Pyrrho, Philemon,
Crantor.
291 Age of Euclid the mathema-
tician, Epicurus, Bion, &c.

284 Pharos of Alexandria built.
The Septuagint translated
about this time.

cxxiv. 4. 473 281 Lysimachus defeated and killed

cxxv. 1.

474

CXXV. 3. 476

by Seleucus. Romans begin the Tarentine war. Achæan league begins.

280 Pyrrhus king of Epirus goes to Italy to assist the Tarentines. 278 The Gauls cut to pieces near Delphi. Age of Sostratus,

Ol.

JA. U.C.B. C.

cxxxiv. 1.

510

cxxxiv. 3. 512

cxxxiv. 4. 513

CXXXV. 1. 514

Theocritus, Aratus, Lycophron, &c.

274 Curius defeats Pyrrhus, who retires to Epirus.

269 Silver first coined at Rome.
264 First Punic war begins, and
continues 23 years..

260 Duillius gains the first naval
victory with a Roman fleet
over the Carthaginians.
256 Regulus defeated by Xan-
thippus.

251 Age of Aratus, Cleanthes, Ma-
netho, Timæus, Callimachus,

Zoilus.

244 Citadel of Corinth taken by Aratus.

242 Carthaginians defeated by Lutatius Catulus. End of the first Punic war.

241 Agis king of Lacedæmon put to death.

240 Plays of Livius Andronicus first acted at Rome.

CXXXV. 4. 517 237 Amilcar passes into Spain with

cxxxvi. 2. 519

cxxxvi. 4. 521

cxxxvii. 2. 523

cxxxix. 1. 530

his son Hannibal.

235 Temple of Janus shut the first time since the reign of Numa.

233 Original manuscripts of Eschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides lent to Ptolemy on a pledge of fifteen talents.

231 First divorce known at Rome. Sardinia and Corsica conquered.

224 Colossus of Rhodes thrown down by an earthquake. Romans first cross the Po in pursuit of the Gauls. Age of Chrysippus, Archimedes, Valerius Messala, C.

cxl. 4. cxli. 1. 538 cxli. 3.

537

216 Battle of Cannæ.

540

cxlii. 1.

542

217 Battle of Trasymenus.

214 Romans begin the war against Philip in Epirus.

212 Syracuse taken by Marcellus after a siege of three years. Death of Archimedes.

547 207 Asdrubal defeated by Claudius. Age of Plautus, Ennius, &c.

cxliii. 2.

cxliv. 3.

552

202 Battle of Zama, which put an end to the second Punic war. 200 First Macedonian war begins, and continues four years nearly.

197 Philip defeated at the battle of Cynos-cephale, which puts an end to the first Macedonian war.

192 Romans begin the war with Antiochus the Great, which continues near three years. Age of Lælius, Masinissa, the Scipios, the Gracchi.

183 Death of Hannibal and Philopœmen. Scipio died the year preceding.

171 Second Macedonian war.