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	Ptolemy V Epiphanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 202 BCE however Tlepolemus, the general in charge of Pelusium put himself at the head of a revolt which ended with Agathocles and several of his supporters being killed by the Alexandrian mob.
		In 197 BCE Lycopolis was held by the forces of Ankmachis, (also known as Chaonnophris) the secessionist pharaoh of Upper Egypt, but was forced to withdraw to Thebes.
		The elder of his two sons, Ptolemy VI Philometor (181-145 BCE), succeeded as an infant under the regency of his mother Cleopatra the Syrian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemy_V_of_Egypt (428 words)

	romhist.html
		Third Punic War 149-146 BCE started because the Numidian king Masinissa provoked Carthage into a war not approved by Rome; Carthage was destroyed and razed by the Romans and Carthaginian territory became the Roman province of Africa.
		The Gracchi brothers (Tiberius and Gaius) began a reform movement to redistribute senatorial lands to the landless poor; Tiberius was slain in 133 BCE.
		In 31 BCE Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in the East.
	publish.uwo.ca /~kolson2/romhist.html (1155 words)

	3rd Century B.C.E.
		Rome in the 3rd Century B.C.E. In the 3rd century bce, Rome began to expand its influence beyond peninsular Italy.
		So, starting in 260 B.C.E., the Romans built a fleet of 140 ships, modelled on a captured Punic warship, and introducing corvi (ravens), grappling devices which locked two ships together and permitted the Roman sailors (who only recently had been soldiers) to fight like they were on land.
		Hannibal's army would remain in Italy until 204 BCE (althoug it had ceased to do much damage, hiding out in the mountains in southern Italy from 208 to 204).
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/3rd.cen.htm (951 words)

	africanfront.com (AUF)
		The remainder of the sea is trapped ni the depression, by basalt volcanic dykes, and gradually the water evaporates leaving massive salt flats, salt lakes and salt mines.
		1518 BCE Moses (of the Bible) is born at Memphis Egypt and is adopted by princess Neferubity Thutmosis (sister to Hatshepsut and Thutmosis II).
		327 BCE At Makaranda in Samarkand, Persia, during a drunken rage Alexander murders Cleitus Niger, the African King of Bactria, foster brother of Alexander and commander of the "royal squadron" of the Greek/Macedonian armies under Phillip and Alexander.
	www.africanfront.com /calendar.php (7778 words)

	Pergamum Kingdom
		Although Eumenes I (263-241 BCE), has never used the title of King, he is regarded as the first king in the line of Attalid dynasty who ruled the Pergamum Kingdom for five generations.
		By that time, Philip V, the king of Macedonia was developing some other plans and turned his eyes to Pergamum and Rhodes in 204 BCE, a threat that Attalus was unable to encounter alone.
		Eumenes in alliance with Romans swept the Seleucid army at the battle of Magnesia in 190 BCE., and following the peace treaty of Apameia in 188 BCE, Pergamum was given a large portion of the lands ruled by the Seleucids earlier.
	www.ancientanatolia.com /historical/pergamum_kingdom.htm (1603 words)

	Marcus Cornelius Cethegus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 211 BC, as praetor, he had charge of Apulia; later, he was sent to Sicily, where he proved a successful administrator.
		In 209 BC he was censor, and in 204 BC consul.
		In 203 BC he was proconsul in Italia Superior, where, in conjunction with the praetor Publius Quintilius Varus, he gained a hard-won victory over Mago Barca, Hannibal's brother, in Insubrian territory, and obliged him to leave Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marcus_Cornelius_Cethegus (171 words)

	Amaterasu-Epona
		The statue of Aphrodite is from Myrina, 2nd century BCE; the "Birth of Aphrodite" on the shell is from the Ludovisi Throne, 470-60 BCE; the figurine of Aphrodite on a swan is from Boeotia, Greece, 6th century BCE.
		Celtic Goddess of smithcraft, poetry, inspiration, and healing, she was known as the "Bright Arrow" and was associated with fertility and the birth of lambs in the spring.
		Around the 15th century BCE, the Mycenaens brought Demeter from Crete to Eleusis, the place where she found her daughter and where the initiation of women into the Great Mysteries was performed.
	www.goddessmyths.com /Amaterasu-Epona.html (1826 words)

	I, Daniel by Robert Riggs
		In 301 BCE, Seleucus joined a successful confederacy against Antigonus I, the newest King of Macedonia, and as a reward, Seleucus was granted a large part of Asia Minor and the whole of Syria.
		In 242-241 BCE, Seleucus was able to deliver Damascus and Orthosia on the Phoenician coast, that were being besieged by the Egyptians.
		This 'Scientific and Artistic Commission of Egypt' was responsible for the discovery of the Rosetta Stone (sculpted in honor of Ptolemy V Epiphanes in 195 BCE) that made it possible to decipher the written languages of ancient Egypt.
	bci.org /prophecy-fulfilled/id2.htm (11494 words)

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		In 216 BCE Hannibal defeated the Romans at Cannae, destroying 80,000 Roman soldiers.
		In 204 BCE Scipio landed in African used the same tactics that Hannibal used in Italy - he burned the farm land and headed straight for Carthage to besiege the city.
		In 202 BCE Hannibal and Scipio met at Zama, the decisive battle of the 2
	web.jjay.cuny.edu /~mbstwck/punicwars.htm (644 words)

	Mothergoddesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She was worshipped with extatic dancing and erothic music by drums and cymbales, in caves, her sacred under earthly chambers were identified as a symbol for a womb.
		The same word is seen in the kaba of Mekka, a cubic sanctuary of islamites, where the ancient Arabic Mother Goddess of Cybeles' cult was moved to Rome in 204 BCE by the oracle priestesses called Sibylles.
		Her statue was carried through the streets of Rome and it was covered with roses, just as is now done with the statue of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, whom also is a evolution of Cybele.
	www.xs4all.nl /~missgien/faith/cybele_story.html (552 words)

	History of Iran: Parthian Empire
		After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Parthia, northeastern Iran, was governed by the Seleucid kings: a Macedonian dynasty that ruled in the Asian territories of the former Persian Empire.
		In July 141 BCE Mithradates captured the Seleucid capital Seleucia, and in October he reached Uruk in the south of Babylonia.
		In 69 BCE, the two enemies concluded a treaty: the Euphrates would be the border.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/parthians/parthians.php (1968 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.25
		Berneder agrees with the early third century BCE date of the introduction but suggests that some of the details in the sources are inventions of later annalists.
		Therefore, Berneder, argues, the story of the vir optimus Scipio Nasica of BCE 204, was added in BCE 133, motivated by the contemporary quarrel for the legacy of Pergamon.
		The cult of the Magna Mater was brought from Pergamon in BCE 205/204.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-05-25.html (2660 words)

	The Jewish Calendar
		In 587 BCE, Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonian king Nebukadnezar II.
		In 63 BCE, Palestine was occupied by Roman troups led by Pompeius.
		The epoch of the calculation of the moladot is Sunday, 6 October 3761 BCE, 23:11:20h, expressed in the Julian calendar.
	www.ortelius.de /kalender/j_uk.php (2505 words)

	Ludi Megalesiaci
		In 204 BCE, in response to social strains caused by fighting the
		Cicero, in one of his harangues against his enemy Clodius, claimed that Clodius in the year 55 B.C.E. when he was aedile, had encouraged an outbreak of mob violence during the theatrical performances at the Ludi Megalesiaci.
		Ceres was the goddess of grain and the Ludi and cult ceremonies in her honor reflect the concerns of a predominantly agrarian society.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/Megalesiaci.htm (880 words)

	LUDI: Roman Festivals
		The festival dates from the 6th C BCE, In 364, Etruscan dancers were added, leading to speculation in re: Fescennine verses… Comedy and tragedy were probably performed from time to time after this and became a regular feature of the ludi Romani in 240 BCE.
		Ludi proliferated from the 3rd C BCE when they were given official sanction and financial support.
		This practice became especially important when bonuses began to be paid when public response became notably vocal, prompting magistrates to pay claques to cheer wildly and to bribe public officials to notice the wild cheering.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /ludi.htm (429 words)

	Dancing and Dying
		When Roman soldiers were faced, for the first time, with these strange-looking, -sounding, and –smelling animals, whose charge one historian compared to an earthquake, the cavalrymen were unable to control their terrified horses, and the infantrymen were forced to retreat or be trampled.
		By 217 BCE, Hannibal is reported to have had only one elephant left, and to have ridden it at the head of his army as it moved southward.
		The historian Livy, for example, has a Locrian ambassador to the Roman Senate in 204 BCE say that the entire human race is in suspense about whether it will see the Romans or the Carthaginians become the rulers of the world (29.17.6).
	cla.calpoly.edu /~jlynch/Elephants.htm (6990 words)

	412 A Brief History of Roman History, Classical Drama and Theatre
		Both nations are of Indo-European stock, part of the massive invasions and displacements beginning in the second millennium BCE which disrupted and obliterated native peoples in a vast series of migrations extending from northern Europe all the way to India.
		By 61 BCE he had been granted two triumphs—to get one was a rare honor, and Pompey would go on to have a third!—but in retrospect it's clear these triumphs stemmed less from the Romans' honor of the man than a collective fear for their lives in his presence.
		In 29 BCE they woke up from a century of civil war to find themselves the clients of one of their own and, though a comfortable and becoming indenture, it was slavery all the same.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/121romhist.htm (6008 words)

	Egyptian Pharaohs : Graeco-Roman Period : Ptolemaic Dynasty : Ptolemy IV Philopater
		The pharaoh armed native Egyptian troops to successfully attack Syria --although greek historians say that 70,000 people died in the battle of Rafia in 217 BCE.
		On the advice of a courtier, Sosibios, Ptolemy IV had is mother, brother, and uncle killed, most likely to try to retain control of the government.
		When Ptolemy IV died in 204 BCE, two of his ministers had his wife and sister Arsinoe killed.
	www.phouka.com /pharaoh/pharaoh/dynasties/dyn33/04pto4.html (209 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Roman Religiones Licitae and Illicitae, c. 204 BCE - 112 CE
		204 BCE - 112 CE This is a collection of texts arranged here to show how the Romans didn't just persecute Christianity, but were picky as to what religions they allowed and which they did not.
		204 B.C. About this time the citizens were much exercised by a religious question which had lately come up.
		In order, therefore, to secure all the sooner the victory which the Fates, the omens, and the oracles alike foreshadowed, they began to think out the best way of transporting the goddess to Rome.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/romrelig2.html (2287 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Megalesia, Megalensia Roman festival of the goddess Cybele
		This week-long festival was to celebrate the arrival in Rome of the idol of Cybele in 204 BCE.
		From 191 BCE, when Cybele’s temple had been completed, the great festivities began on this day and were celebrated for six days each year.
		On April 4, 204 BCE the ship bearing the idol ran aground at the mouth of the Tiber River.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /cybele.html (750 words)

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		In 204 BCE a sacred fl stone was brought to Rome from Phrygia, representing the Magna Mater (Great Mother) Cybele.
		Romans at the time were suffering from the attacks of Hannibal; they were counseled by the Sibylline books to bring in the goddess as a divine protector.
		The following year Hannibal left Italy.The stone was housed in this temple (finished in 191 BCE) which became the center of Cybele's worship in Rome, including ecstatic rites and eunuch priests.
	www.vroma.org:7878 /3022 (157 words)

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		Cato the Elder (234-149 BCE) was a famous Roman patrician (aristocrat) and statesman.
		When Cato was posted to Africa to serve as Scipio's quaestor [financial office] for the invasion of Carthage [204 BCE], he say that his commander was not only indulging in his usual lavish personal expenditure, but was also squandering extravagantly high pay on his troops.
		Scipio retorted that when his plan of campaign was proceeding as it were under full sail he had no use for a niggling quaestor, and that he would be called upon to account to the Roman people not for the money he had spent but for the battles he had won.
	www.augie.edu /dept/history/cato.htm (1242 words)

	Canaanite & Phoenician History & Culture
		During the second millennium BCE camels are domesticated in the region, and horses are introduced into the Middle East from the north or north-east, the Russian steppes or Central Asia.
		But around 1200 BCE the Indo-European "Sea Peoples," whose origin is still unknown, but who may be northern European or Baltic, armed with iron weapons pour in from the northern Aegean, invading the coastal Levant, driving back the Egyptians and Assyrians.
		In 145 BCE the city is burnt and razed, the soil sown with salt, and what little remains is firmly under the fist of the Roman Empire until the fall of Rome in 470 CE, after which the area comes into the sphere of Byzantium, then various Moslem empires.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Lofts/2938/histcult.html (3833 words)

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		Subject: Re: ane Daily Life Galilee circa 800 BCE question Tony, Cannot give you specifics on Galilee in 800 BCE, but The Oxford Encylopedia of Archaeology in the Near East has several references under "Bathrooms".
		204 & S130 respectively] I believe the paper was by Peter Warnock (Texas A&M), "The Potential of Determining Diet and Envioroment Using Archaeobotany, as Applied to Shaft Tombs at Bronze Age Khirbet Iskander, Jordan", or, Yigal Shiloh, (Duke University/Hebrew University) "The Casemate Wall, the 'Four Room House,' and Early Planning in the Israelite City".
		Subject: Re: ane Daily Life Galilee circa 800 BCE question Dear Dr. Harris, Cannot help you with Galilee in 800 BCE, but The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East has four references under "Bathrooms" which may be of interest.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/2001/v2001.n159 (1304 words)

	Esoteric Christianity: The Greek Mystery Religions and Their Impact on Christianity
		In Alexandria Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221-205 BCE) was a devotee of Dionysus.
		In Rome Emperor Augustus (reigned 44 BCE to 14 CE) was an initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries and a devotee of Apollo.
		The religion of Attis was first established in Phrygia, and in 204 BCE the goddess Cybele was formally welcomed into Rome.
	www.egodeath.com /bensonmysteryrels.htm (9480 words)

	notes2
		Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)- The Persian emperor Darius retaliated and attacked Attica (the peninsula dominated by Athens) in 490 BCE.
		Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE)- The Greek military strategy early in the war was to slow the Persian invasion long enough to allow the Greek navy the chance to attack the Persian fleet.
		Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus (around 133 BCE)- Tiberius was elected a Tribune of the plebeians in 133 BCE and proposed redistributing public lands to provide landless peasants with small farms.
	users.gloryroad.net /~cmonte/WHnotes2.html (11022 words)

	History of the Hellenistic and Roman World
		Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236 - 184 BCE) was the greatest Roman general, and arguably the greatest General of the ancient world.
		Acknowledged as the "Perfect Prince" by the hellenistic world in his own time, he was the conquoror of the great Carthaginian Hannibal Barca, and was instrumental in shaping the policies and the army that made Rome the unchallenged mistress of the Mediterranean world.
		Scipio Africanus : Africa (204 - 201 BCE)
	fenrir.dk /history/index.php?title=Publius_Cornelius_Scipio_Africanus (174 words)

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