307 B.C. - events and references (original) (raw)

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EGY {Tybi -E = March} Document: AET_7.7, a contract for the sale and cession of a house.

AFR Agathocles captures Utica.
@ +Diod_20.54'2-55'4.

SIC Xenodocus is defeated by an army from Syracuse.
@ +Diod_20.56'1-3.

AFR Eumachus makes a successful raid into the interior of Africa.
@ +Diod_20.57'4-58'6.

ROM Claudius chooses to stay at Rome, while Volumnius takes charge of the army.
* Read Livy's account
@ +Liv_9.42'4,* 10.19'7.

AFR Agathocles leaves his son Archagathus in charge of the army in Africa, and sails back to Sicily.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_20.55'5;* Just_22.8'1.

GRE << The Macedonian garrison leaves Eretria.
@ Syll_323.

?? Laws passed by Demetrius of Phalerum while he was in control at Athens.
* Read Athenaeus' account
@ Athen_13.610'e<q"* Alexis>;Plut:Arist_27'4-5<q"DemPhal_45>; DemPhal_28;Cic:Rep_2'2, :Leg_2'66;L Plut:Mor_818'D; DiogLaert_5'75.

?? Demetrius of Phalerum gives a garden to Theophrastus.
@ DiogLaert_5'39.

?? Demetrius of Phalerum preserves a boat which is said to have carried Theseus to Crete.
@ Plut:Thes_23'1.

?? Philon enlarges the temple of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis.
@ Vitr_7.pr'17.

?? The orator Pytheas admits that he has sometimes behaved badly.
@ Aelian:VH_14'28; { Pytheas is mentioned in 322 B.C. as a supporter of Antipater.}

++ Comments on the refined style of the public speeches of Demetrius of Phalerum.
@ Cic:Brut_37-38.

++ The decadent private life of Demetrius of Phalerum.
* Read Athenaeus' account
@ Plut:Mor_60'D;(19) Athen_12.542'b-543'a<q"* Duris_10>,13.593'e-f; Aelian:VH_9'9; DiogLaert_5'76.

{June ?} Demetrius the son of Antigonus captures Peiraeus and expels Demetrius of Phalerum from Athens.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ +MarmPar_B'20; +Diod_20.45'1-5; Plut:Demetr_8'1-9'4,* :Mor_182'E-F; Paus_1.25'6; Polyaen_4.7'6; Aelian:VH_3'17; Suda_D'429; { CAH_7.1'55-56; Errington_p46-47.}

SIC Deinocrates rallies resistance in Sicily against Agathocles.
@ +Diod_20.56'3-57'3.

ITA Volumnius attacks the Sallentini.
@ +Liv_9.42'5; { CAH_7.2'663.}

Fabius defeats the Samnites at Allifae.
@ +Liv_9.42'6-8; { CAH_7.2'663.}

AFR Archagathus divides up his army, which is then heavily defeated by the Carthaginians.
@ +Diod_20.59'1-61'4.

PEL Demetrius captures Megara.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ +DionHal:Din_3<q"Philoch_66>;+Diod_20.46'3; Sen:Dial_2.5'6, :Ep_9'18; Plut:Demetr_9'4-10,* :Mor_5'F, 475'C; DiogLaert_2'115.

17a

GRE << Document: Epicur:Fr_96-100 & 158, letters written by Epicurus to Polyaenus and others, when Charinus was Athenian archon.

17b

?? Document: Syll_325, a decree of Delphi, granting privileges to Nicodemus of Messenia.

17c

?? Document: THI_44, decrees of Athens, Samos and other states in honour of Nicomedes, an associate of Antigonus.

PER << Seleucus conquers the Parthians.
* Read Justin's account
@ Just_41.4'3;* Malal_198; Movses_2'1; { There is very little evidence for the dating of Seleucus' campaigns in the east of his empire, but this must have one of his first conquests.}

SIC Agathocles defeats the Carthaginian fleet off Syracuse.
@ +Diod_20.61'5-62'1; { CAH_7.2'663.}

Leptines defeats Xenodocus, and puts an end to the revolt by Acragas.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_20.62'2-5;* Just_22.8'2-3; Trog:Prol_22; { CAH_7.2'663.}

Agathocles invites his opponents to a banquet at Syracuse, and has them killed.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_20.63'1-7;* Polyaen_5.3'3.

GRE {August ?} Demetrius captures and destroys Munychia.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +MarmPar_B'21; +DionHal:Din_2, 3; +Diod_20.45'5-7;* Plut:Demetr_10'1, +:Mor_850'D; { Errington_p47.}

The start of a four years' war between the Athenians and Cassander; Demochares strengthens the fortifications of Athens.
@ Plut:Mor_851'D; { OCD�.}

AFR Agathocles is defeated by the Carthaginians in a battle which is followed by a panic in both camps.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_20.64'1-67'4;* Just_22.8'4-8; { CAH_7.1'399; Green_688.}

{November} Agathocles secretly returns to Sicily, abandoning his army.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_20.68'1-69'3;* Just_22.8'8-12; Trog:Prol_22; { CAH_7.1'400; OCD�.}

{November} The soldiers kill Archagathus and Heracleides, the sons of Agathocles.
* Read Justin's account
@ Polyb_7.2'4; +Diod_20.69'3, 70'4; Just_22.8'13-14.*

The remainder of Agathocles' army agrees terms with the Carthaginians.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_20.69'3-5;* Just_22.8'13; { CAH_7.1'400.}

GRE ?? The Athenian politician Stratocles has a mistress called Leme.
@ Athen_13.596'f; { Stratocles' flattery of Demetrius is described in Plut:Demetr_11.}

?? A torchbearer at Eleusis, accompanying Stratocles, defiles the mysteries after becoming a follower of Epicurus.
@ Aelian:Fr_10.

The Athenians grant extravagant honours to Demetrius and his father Antigonus.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Philoch_166; Athen_15.697'a<q"Philoch_165>;+Diod_20.46'1-5; Plut:Demetr_10'2-14'4;* Paus_10.10'2; ClemAl:Protr_4'48;(↓) { Errington_p47.}

The Athenians condemn Demetrius of Phalerum to death in his absence, and destroy his statues.
* Read Diogenes' account
@ DionHal:Din_3<q"Philoch_66>;~Strab_9'398;(1.20) Plin:HN_34'27; Plut:Mor_559'D, 820'E-F; Ampel_15'19; DiogLaert_5'77,* '79, '82; { Green_48.}

?? Deinarchus delivers several speeches against Polyeuctus.
* Read Suda's account
@ Dinarch:Fr_1-2; +DionHal:Din_10; Suda_P'99.*

Deinarchus is accused of having secret dealings with Cassander, and is forced to go into exile at Chalcis.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ +DionHal:Din_2, 4, 9; ~Plut:Mor_850'C-D.*

ETR The Hernici declare war after the Romans take some of their citizens as prisoners.
@ +Liv_9.42'9.