OHRONOLOQY. 



B C. 



3*8. Philip concludes the sacml war after taking the 

 ciuetof the Phocxans. Speutippus, the a< 

 mic philosopher, c! \ comet appeared in 



Greecr. Sec Lai 



.y*iui recover* Syracuse. SIS. 



itotlc the philosopher flourished, ob. 322. zt. G3. 312. 

 MS. War between the Romans jnd Samnitei commences 

 and continuei 71 ycar. Timoleon restores the li- 

 berty of Syracuse ; expels Dionysius, and esta- 



,s a democracy. Protogenei, of Rhodes, the 310. 

 painter, ob. about 320. The Syracusan zra com- 

 menced. Philip makes Thrace tributary. A 

 plague at Rome. 

 3(1. A comet appeared near the equator, in Greece. 



See RiccioU. 308. 



340. The Carthaginians defeated near Agrigcntum by 



Timoleon, July 13. :-"i~. 



S39. Xcnocratcs, the academic philosopher, ob. 314. set. 306. 



305. 

 338. The Athenians defeated by Philip, &c. in the bat- li(H. 



tie of Chxronca, Aug. 2. 



336. Philip killed by Pau?anias. A comet appeared in 301. 

 Greece, and was een for 70 days. Stilpo of 300. 

 Megara, the philos pher, ob. afte r 294. 298. 



335. Alexander enter* GU-I.CI, destroys Thebes, but 



preserves the house of Pi. dar. Denudes, the 296. 

 Athenian orator, ob. 322. 

 334. Alexander defeats the Persians on the Granicus 294. 



May 22. Apelles of Cos, the painter. 

 SSS. Alexander gains a second battle at Issus, in Octo- 

 ber. Callisthcnes, the philosopher, ob. 328. 

 332. Alexander takes Tyre, Aug. 20 j obtains posses- 293. 

 sion of Egypt, and builds Alexandria. Dino- 

 crates the mathematician. 



331 . Darius defeated by Alexander in the battle of Ar- 292. 

 bcla, Oct. 2, eleven days after a total eclipse of 291. 

 the moon. 

 330. The cycle of Calippus commences from Darius's 290. 



death, July 1. /Eschines the orator banished. 

 329. Hyperides, the Athenian orator, ob. 322. 

 328. Philctas of Cos, the poet and grammarian, ob. about 288. 

 280. Alexander passed the mountain of Cau- 287. 

 casus. 



327. Alexander's expedition into India against Porus. 

 326. I.ysippus the statuary flourished. 286. 



325. Menedemus of Eretria, ob. about 301, zt. 74. 



Demosthenes banished from Athens, recalled in 285. 

 23, and died in 322, zt. 60. 

 324. Crates of Thebes, the Cynic philosopher, ob. after 



287. 

 323. Alexander dies, April 21, and his empire divided. 284. 



Praxiteles, the statuary, ob. after 288. 

 .'. Autipatcr puts to death the Athenian orators, De- 

 mosthenes, Hyperides, and Demades. Theo- 

 phrastus, the Peripatetic philosopher, ob. about 

 288, zt. 85. 283. 



. The Romans defeated by the Sammies. 

 '. Polysperchon proclaims general liberty to all the 282. 

 Greek cities. Ptolemy carries 100,000 Jews 

 ptivcs into Egypt. Menandcr, the inventor of 

 new comedy, ob. 293, zt. 52. 

 mans subdue the Samnites. 280. 



ut to death by the Athenians. Cassander 

 . a.tcr of Athens. 279. 



<: -urps the government of Syracuse and 



i IH Phalcreus governs Athens for 278. 

 i xpclled from Athens in 307 } ob. 







Cassander rebuilt Thebes, and founded Casiandria. 

 Rhode g nearly destroyed by an inundatu n. 



The cities of Prlopctniu-sut recover their liberties. 

 Diiurvhua, the Athenian orator, banished in 307. 



Polemoii, the Academic philosopher, ob. 



Babylon taken by Sulrucus. The zra of the Se- 

 leucidz commences. Zeno of Cittium in Cyprus, 

 the first of the Stoic philosophers, ob. 264. zt. 

 08. 



The Carthaginians defeat Agathocles, July 22, who 

 carries the war into Africa ; during his passage, 

 the sun was eclipsed, Aug. 15, 11 ili^ita 10'. 

 A comet appeared in China. Grantor, the Aca- 

 demic philosopher, ob. before 270. 



The Samnites, Marsi, and Peligni defeated by Fa- 

 bius. Phil.-mcu, the comic poet, ob. about ^71. 



The oligarchy of Athens changed into a democracy. 



The successors of Alexander take the title of kings. 



Megasthenes, the historian. 



Seleucus founded Antioch, Edessa, Laodicea, &c. 

 Pyrrho, the philosopher, ob. zt. 90. ' 



Antigonus defeated at the battle of Ipsus. 



Euclid of Alexandria, the mathematician. 



Arcesilaus the philosopher founder of the middle 

 Academy, ob. about 241, zt. 73. 



Athens taken by Demetrius Poliorcetcs. Epicurus, 

 the philosopher, ob. 270, aet. 72. 



Timocharis of Alexandria observed, March 9th, 4 

 hours before midnight, a conjunction of the moon 

 with Spua yirginis, ob. after 272. Rome con- 

 tained 270,000 effective men. 



The first sun-dial erected at Rome upon the temple 

 of Quirinus by Papirius Cursor. Erasistratus, 

 the physician, ob. about '2.~i~. 



Aristyllus of Alexandria, the astronomer. 



Seleucus builds and peoples about 40 new cities in 

 Asia. 



The Samnitc war ended. Fabius introduces paint- 

 ing into Rome. Bion Borysthenitcs, the philo- 

 sopher, ob. 241. 



Strato, the Peripatetic philosopher, ob. about 270. 



The Athenians revolt from Demetrius Poliorcetes. 

 Zenodotus of Ephesus, the first librarian of Alex- 

 andria, ob. about 21-.'). 



Macedon taken possession of by Lysimachus, and 

 Pyrrhus expelled. 



Dionysius, the astronomer of Alexandria, began his 

 zra on Monday June 26th. He was the first who 

 found the exact solar year to consist of 365 d 5 b 49' 

 ob. 241. 



The Septuagint translation of the Old Testament 

 supposed to have been made. The pharos of 

 Alexandria built. Achaean republic founded. A 

 great earthquake in the Hellespont and Cher- 

 sonesus. The Gauls defeat the Romans. 



Sostratus of Cnidus, the architect. The college 

 and library of Alexandria founded. 



Timocharis observed, Nov. 9th, 3! hours after mid- 

 night, a second conjunction of the moon witli 

 Spica f'irgiuis. Theocritus of Syracuse, the pas- 

 toral poet. 



Pyrrhus assists theTarentincs in Italy. Aristarchus 

 of Samos, the astronomer, flourished. 



Dionysius Heracleotes, the philosopher. Rome 

 contains 278,222 citizens. 



An army of Gauls under Brennus cut to pieces 

 near the temple of Delphi. Philo, the dialectic 

 philosopher, ob. about 260. 



Chronolo. 



