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

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MAC Ptolemy, Lysimachus, and Pyrrhus form a coalition against Demetrius.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Plut:Pyrrh_10'6-11'2,* ~:Demetr_44'1-3; Paus_1.9'8; Just_16.2'1; Oros_3.23'53-54; { ~CAH_7.1'108; Errington_p55.}

SIC << Death of Agathocles son of Agathocles, allegedly murdered by Archagathus the grandson of Agathocles.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ ~Diod_21.16'1-3;* Just_23.2'5; Trog:Prol_23; { ~CAH_7.1'409.}

?? Agathocles enlists the Mamertines as mercenaries.
@ DioCass_fr.40'8.

?? Agathocles breaks an oath, in order to slaughter some of his enemies.
@ Polyaen_5.3'1.

?? Agathocles embellishes Syracuse with new public buildings.
@ Diod_16.83'2.

?? Agathocles tries to disguise his baldness by wearing a wreath of myrtle.
@ Aelian:VH_11'4.

?? Sayings of Agathocles, alluding to his origins as a potter, and in response to insults from a city which he was besieging.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Athen_11.466'a<q"Caecilius>;Plut:Mor_176'E-F,* 458'E-F, 544'B-C.

++ General remarks on the character and career of Agathocles.
* Read Polybius' account
@ Polyb_9.23'2, 12.15'1-11,* 15.35'1-7; Diod_19.1'5-8, 21.17'1-4; Suda_A'117, K'214.

<< **The death of Agathocles, king of Syracuse.**
* Read Justin's account
@ Lucian:Macr_10<q"Democh_5>;Polyb_12.15'3; Diod_20.101'3, ~21.16'4-6; ~Just_23.2'6-13;* Trog:Prol_23; { CAH_7.1'409; OCD�.}

GRE << Poseidippus of Cassandreia produces his first comedy.
@ Suda_P'2111; { OCD�.}

10a

<< Document: Epicur:Fr_169, a letter from Epicurus to Phyrson.

10b

?? Document: Syll_369, a statue of Pyrrhus at Callipolis in Aetolia.

10c

AEG ?? Document: SEG_55.922, a decree of Cos offering thanks to the cities of Thessaly.

10d

?? Document: IG_12.9.207, regulations for the Dionysia and Demetrieia games in Euboea.

ASI << Document: SEG_35.926 & BD_10 (Syll_368), decrees of the Ionian League in honour of Hippodamus and Hippostratus of Miletus. { Errington_p58.}

11a

?? Document: THI_110, a decree of Ephesus in honour of an officer of Lysimachus.

11b

?? Lysimachus refounds Ephesus on a new site.
* Read Strabo's account
@ AnthPal_9.424; Syll_1182; Strab_14'640;* (1.21) Frontin:Str_3.3'7; Paus_1.9'7, 7.3'4-5; Polyaen_5.19'1; { See H.S.Lund, Lysimachus, p.92.}

PON ?? The foundation of the city of Amastris, by Amastris the mother of the tyrants of Heracleia.
* Read Strabo's account
@ Strab_12'544,* (3.10) '553;(3.26) Memn_4'9, 5'4.

?? Amastris is murdered by her sons.
@ Memn_5'2.

THR Demetrius advances against Lysimachus, but returns when he receives news of Pyrrhus' capture of Beroea.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Plut:Pyrrh_11'3-7,* ~:Demetr_44'4-6; Paus_1.10'2; { Green_127.}

?? Lachares escapes to Lysimacheia after Sestus is captured.
@ Polyaen_3.7'3; { Polyaenus gives no indication of the date, but it is likely to have been part of an attack by Demetrius on Lysimachus.}

SIC Menon assassinates Archagathus.
@ ~Diod_21.16'6-7.

MAC Demetrius' army deserts to Pyrrhus, and Demetrius loses control of Macedonia.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Cic:Off_2'26; ~Plut:Pyrrh_11'8-14,* ~:Demetr_44'7-10; Paus_1.10'2, 12'3; Just_16.2'2-3; Trog:Prol_16; +[Euseb]:Chron_233, 241, 245;(↓) +Hieron:Chron_1729; Oros_3.23'55; Malal_196; { OCD�; Errington_p55.}

Lysimachus captures Amphipolis.
@ Polyaen_4.12'2; { Green_127.}

The partition of Macedonia between Pyrrhus and Lysimachus.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Plut:Pyrrh_12'1;* Paus_1.10'2; [Euseb]:Chron_233, 241, 245;(↓) { CAH_7.1'108, CAH_7.2'462.}

SIC The Mamertines agree to leave Syracuse, but afterwards seize the city of Messana.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ Polyb_1.7'1-5, 3.26'6; ~Diod_21.18'1-2;* Strab_6'268;(2.3) DioCass_fr.40'6; Zonar_8'8;(p381) { CAH_7.2'474, '665; OCD�.}

PEL Demetrius tours the Greek states in an attempt to rally support.
@ ~Plut:Demetr_45'1-5; { Green_128.}

ROM ?? "Triumviri capitales" are appointed for the first time.
@ ~[Liv]:Per_11.