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

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ROM {March -R} The new consuls refuse to accept the censors' changes to the senate.
@ +Liv_9.30'1-2; { CAH_7.2'396.}

SYR << Demetrius defeats Cilles, the general of Ptolemy.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_19.93'1-3;* Plut:Demetr_6'1-5; Paus_1.6'5; { Hölbl_p18.}

<< Ptolemy sends Seleucus with a small force to reoccupy Babylonia.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +MarmPar_B'16; +Diod_19.86'5, 90'1-5;* Appian:Syr_54, 56; Arrian:Ind_43'4; Porph:Fr_42; [Euseb]:Chron_249; Liban:Or_11'77-78,B '82;B { CAH_7.1'49; Errington_p33.}

PAL Ptolemy retreats back to Egypt.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_19.93'3-7;* Plut:Demetr_6'5; Paus_1.6'5; { Green_687.}

EGY Ptolemy settles some of the Jews in Egypt.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Aristeas_12, 22, 23, 36; ~Joseph:AJ_12'7-9,* :Ap_1'186-189; August:DeCiv_18'42, '45;(↓) ChronSynt_65, 67;(↓) { Hölbl_p189; Green_499.}

MES The beginning of the reign of Seleucus in Babylonia.
@ +BabylChron_3'R3-4, IM.65066; Appian:Syr_63<+v>; +[Euseb]:Chron_249; +Hieron:Chron_1705; Sulpit_2'19; ExcBarb_46A; Movses_2'1; ChronSynt_91.(↓)

{Nisan -B = April} The start of the Seleucid Era.
* Read St.Jerome's account
@ ~BabylChron_BM.35603; 1Macc_1'10, '54, 10'21; 2Macc_1'7, 11'33; Joseph:AJ_12'246, '264, '297, 13'213; Euseb:HistEc_1.13'21; ChronPasc_421'C; +Hieron:Chron_1704,* 1706; { CAH_7.1'52; Errington_p39; in the Macedonian calendar, the Seleucid Era is counted from October 312.}

ARA The Nabataeans defeat Athenaeus, the general of Antigonus.
@ +Diod_19.94'1-96'3.

ROM The flute-players return to Rome after protesting at the removal of their privileges by Ap.Claudius.
* Read Livy's account
@ +Liv_9.30'5-10;* Ovid:Fast_6'661-692; ValMax_2.5'4; [Vict]:VirIll_34'1.

SIC Hamilcar son of Gisco arrives as the new Carthaginian general in Sicily.
@ +Diod_19.106'1-5; { CAH_7.1'392.}

Agathocles enters Gela and massacres his opponents there.
@ +Diod_19.107'1-5; { CAH_7.1'393.}

MES Seleucus gains complete control of Babylonia.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +BabylChron_3'R6-8; Daniel_11'5; +Diod_19.91'1-5;* Plut:Demetr_7'2; Appian:Syr_54; Just_15.4'11; [Euseb]:Chron_249; !Hieron:Chron_1716; Oros_3.23'44; { CAH_7.1'52=312; Hölbl_p18.}

ARA Demetrius leads a raid against the Nabataeans.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_19.96'3-98'1;* Plut:Demetr_7'1.

PAL Demetrius persuades Antigonus to attempt to extract asphalt from the Dead Sea.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ HierCard_5;+Diod_19.98'1-100'3.*

14a

EXT Ptolemy leads an expedition against the Nubians.
@ AET_8.5'6-7; { the details are vague, but "the Satrap Stela does, in fact, document a punitive campaign in Nubia conducted by Ptolemy I" (S.M. Burstein).}

ITA The Romans lose control of Cluviae, but quickly recapture it.
@ +Liv_9.31'1-3; { CAH_7.2'662.}

GRE << Zenon of Citium moves to Athens; he loses his wealth in a shipwreck and becomes a student of philosophy.
* Read Diogenes' account
@ Sen:Dial_9.14'3; Plut:Mor_87'A, 467'D, 603'D; DiogLaert_7'2-5,* '13, ~'28, '31-32; Suda_N'82, N'604; { CAH_7.1'494; OCD�=313.}

<< **Timaeus the historian moves to Athens.**
@ Polyb_12.25d'1<q"Timae_34>;{ CAH_7.1'392; Green_687.}

SIC {July} The Carthaginians under Hamilcar defeat Agathocles by the river Himera.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ Diod_19.1'10, +108'1-109'5,* 20.3'1, 30'1; Just_22.3'8-9; { CAH_7.1'393; OCD�.}

AEG << Protogenes starts work on his painting of Ialysus.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Plut:Demetr_22'5;* Fronto:Ep_1'p134; { The painting took 7 years to complete (or 11 years, according to Fronto).}

ITA The Romans capture Bovianum.
@ +Liv_9.31'4-5; { CAH_7.2'662.}

ETR Aemilius defeats an Etruscan army near Sutrium.
@ +Liv_9.32'1-12; { CAH_7.2'373; this needs to be distinguished from a similar event in 310 BC.}

SYR Antigonus agrees to a peace treaty with Cassander, Lysimachus, and Ptolemy.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ OGIS_5<t= BD_6>, 6'5-9<t= BD_6>; +Diod_19.105'1;* { CAH_7.1'50; Errington_p34.}

ITA The Samnites attempt to trap Junius in an ambush.
* Read Livy's account
@ +Liv_9.31'6-16;* Zonar_8'1.(p271)

The consuls defeat the Samnites at (?) Talium.
@ +Diod_20.26'3-4.

SIC Agathocles escapes to Gela, where he beats off a Carthaginian attack.
@ +Diod_19.110'1-3.

ASI Document: RC_1 (OGIS_5), a letter from Antigonus to Scepsis concerning the recent peace treaty.{ CAH_7.1'51; Errington_p35.}

Document: BD_6b (OGIS_6), a decree of Scepsis granting divine honours to Antigonus.{ Green_403.}

ROM {5 August -R} Brutus celebrates a triumph over the Samnites.
@ #FastTr_p96.

{13 August -R} Aemilius celebrates a triumph over the Etruscans.
@ #FastTr_p96.

PER {August/Sept.} Seleucus defeats Nicanor and gains control of Media.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +BabylChron_3'R9-10; +Diod_19.92'1-5;* Appian:Syr_55; { CAH_7.1'53=312; Errington_p33.}

EGY {Dius -M = Oct.} Document: SelPap_1.1, the marriage contract of Heracleides and Demetria.

31a

{1 Thoth -E = November} Document: AET_8.5, the "Stele of the Satrap", recording the restoration of the rights of a temple at Buto by Ptolemy. { Hölbl_p83; Errington_p42.}

BOS ++ Parysades is a just ruler, and receives divine honours.
@ Strab_7'310.(4.4)

The death of Parysades, the ruler of the Cimmerian Bosporus, who is succeeded by his son Satyrus.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ +Diod_16.52'10, 20.22'1-6;* { OCD�.}

SIC Many Sicilian cities changes sides to support Hamilcar and the Carthaginians.
@ +Diod_19.110'4-5.

ROM == The Roman people are given the right to elect the tribuni militum.
@ +Liv_9.30'3; { CAH_7.2'373.}

== The first duumviri are appointed to supervise the Roman fleet.
@ +Liv_9.30'4; { CAH_7.2'410; Green_687.}