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  Theophrastus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
He was tried for impiety, but acquitted by the Athenian jury.
He died in 287 BCE, having presided over the Lyceum about thirty-five years.
His age is sometimes put at 85, and 107 by others.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/t/theophra.htm   (304 words)

  
  Secessio plebis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 494 BCE, in response to the harsh rule of Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis, the plebs seceded and fled to a "holy hill".
In 287 BCE, the plebs seceded a final time to force the patricians to adopt the Lex Hortensia, which gave the plebs the final say in all legislative matters.
The Gracchi, in the second century BCE, were the first and only politicians who gave a bill directly to the assembly without approving it with the patricians beforehand.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secessio_plebis   (499 words)

  
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Their conservative government consists of a kingship, resembling the traditional values of the patriarchal family; an assembly, composed of male citizens of military age; and a Senate, comprised of elders who serve as the heads of different community sects.
287 BCE: Rome - The plebeians pass a law which allows the decisions of the assembly to override the Senate.
52 BCE: Rome - Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/ropage.htm   (2946 words)

  
 Energy Time Line - Year 1000 BCE to 1 CE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
287 BCE, died 212 BCE) invents a number of items including the Archimedian screw - a helix-shaped screw in a tube for lifting water.
The oldest reference to a water mill dates to about 85 BCE, appearing in a poem by an early Greek writer celebrating the liberation from toil of the young women who operated the querns (primitive hand mills) for grinding corn.
Additionally, most scholars put the birth of Jesus at 7 BCE to 4 BCE, making the numbering of the calendar years as incorrect.
www.energyquest.ca.gov /time_machine/1000bce-0ce.html   (428 words)

  
 Heavenly Minds | Main / HellenisticTimeline   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 277 BCE, Antigonos Gonatas crushed a force of Galatians, contributing to their withdrawal from Macedonia, with the result that he was acclaimed King of the Macedonians.
At Beneventum in 275 BCE, Phyrros was defeated by the Consul Manius Curius.
However, in 253 BCE, the Ptolemies succeeded in a diplomatic coup, with a seemingly benign peace settlement and the marriage of Berenike, daughter of Ptolemy II to Antiochus II.
www.innocence.com /games/taci/index.php?n=Main.HellenisticTimeline   (3194 words)

  
 Ancient Roman Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: )
367 BCE: Rome The first plebeian consul is elected to the assembly, and plebeians become eligible to serve as lesser magistrates, formerly a position only granted to the aristocratic class.
265 BCE: Rome initiates the Punic Wars with Carthage, an oligarchic empire stretching from the northern coast of Africa to the Strait of Gibraltar.
52 BCE: Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
www.crystalinks.com /romehistory.html   (3100 words)

  
 The Struggle of the Orders (509-287 BCE) and the Development of the Roman Constitution
By the time of the lex Hortensia (287), they were no longer disputed.
A new nobility was created, consisting of those patrician and plebeian families and their descendants who had held the consulship.
The poorer plebeians driven by the desire for booty and land.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~klio/republic/lecture5.htm   (966 words)

  
 The Ancient Roman World
The Plebeians formed a body of their own in 287 BCE-- the Plebiscite-- to protect themselves from the power of the Senate.
By 287 BCE the legislation of the Plebiscite became binding on Plebe and Pat alike.
146 BCE: conquest of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Macedonia and Greece.
staff.jccc.net /thoare/145rome.htm   (860 words)

  
 The Ancient Roman World
The Plebeians formed a body of their own in 287 BCE-- the Plebiscite-- to protect themselves from the power of the Senate.
By 287 BCE the legislation of the Plebiscite became binding on Plebe and Pat alike.
146 BCE: conquest of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, Macedonia and Greece.
staff.jccc.edu /thoare/145rome.htm   (860 words)

  
 Roman constitution
1000 BCE Italy was overwhelmed by war-like invaders, made iron tools and spoke a language known as Italic.
509 BCE a revolution replaced the monarchy with a republic.
Tiberius and brother Gaius were murdered because their methods for instituting these ideas aroused the hatred of the aristocracy.
virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us /mkehoe/romanlecture.htm   (391 words)

  
 ArtLex's P-Par page
Antefix decorated with a painted palmette, from the Archaic temple at Aigira, 500 BCE, Archaeological Museum of Aigion, Greece.
Funerary stele crowned with a palmette and bearing the inscription "Timagenes Dionysos", end of the 4th century BCE, marble, as is: 88 x 51 cm, Archaeological Museum of Syros, Hermoupolis, Greece.
1040-945 BCE, Dynasty 21, reigns of Psensennes I-II, Third Intermediate period, painted and inscribed papyrus, height of illustrated section 13 3/4 inches (34.9 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
www.artlex.com /ArtLex/P.html   (4677 words)

  
 Ancient Roman History Timeline II
A seminal event, Rome's success in its first major wars, first against the town of Fidenae, followed by its defeat of the Etruscan city of Veii in 406-396 BCE, are seen by some historians as laying the foundation for the militaristic underpinnings of Roman society.
Success in these wars allowed for its expansion of territory, and now, as a proven formidable opponent, Rome was seen as a potential danger by some, and a desired ally by others.
The problem is these two were joint rulers from 170 to 164 BCE, and Plutarch simply says "Ptolemy".
www.exovedate.com /ancient_timeline_two.html   (1504 words)

  
 lawtime.html   (Site not responding. Last check: )
510 BCE end of the Regal period; start of the Roman republic.
287 BCE plebescita begin to have the force of law
31 BCE Octavian defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII at the battle of Actium
publish.uwo.ca /~kolson2/lawtime.html   (193 words)

  
 Persia and Rome
Seleucids-(323-250 BCE) the reigning dynasty left behind by Alexander the Great when he conquered Persia.
n509 BCE a revolution replaced the monarchy with a republic.
Caesar was murdered by Brutus, Cassius and 60 other senators on March 15, 44 BCE.
virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us /mkehoe/persia_and_rome.htm   (383 words)

  
 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Hellenistic World
Alexander (356-323 BCE): Speech, from Arrian (c.85/90-after 146/6 CE) The Campaigns of Alexander.
Fifth Century BCE, Archimedes, Letter to Dositheus, c.
Written by a Greek resident of Alexandria in Egypt during the first century BCE, this text is one of the oldest surviving accounts of the countries on Africa's east coast.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook08.html   (890 words)

  
 Propositional Logic [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Generally, however, Aristotle's sophisticated writings on logic dealt with the logic of categories and quantifiers such as "all", and "some", which are not treated in propositional logic.
287 BCE), did recognize a need for the development of a doctrine of "complex" or "hypothetical" propositions, i.e., those involving conjunctions (statements joined by "and"), disjunctions (statements joined by "or") and conditionals (statements joined by "if...
The Stoic philosopher Chrysippus (roughly 280-205 BCE) perhaps did the most in advancing Stoic propositional logic, by marking out a number of different ways of forming complex premises for arguments, and for each, listing valid inference schemata.
www.iep.utm.edu /p/prop-log.htm   (8769 words)

  
 Internet History of Science Sourcebook
Empedocles (c.493-c.433 BCE): Fragments [At Internet Archive, from 4th Tetralogy]
Heraklitos (c.540-c.480 BCE): Fragments [At Internet Archive, from 4th Tetralogy]
The first five parts of Book II in particular discuss elements, and the system of four elements that predates Aristotle.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/science/sciencesbook.html   (2897 words)

  
 Archimedes summary
287 BC - 212 BC Click the picture above
Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of his age.
MIT (Plutarch's account of Archimedes' war machines and of his death)
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html   (96 words)

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