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	Cornelius
		Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum[?], consul 162 BC, 155 BC
		Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio[?], consul 138 BC
		Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella[?], praetor 81 BC, proconsul 80 BC
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Cornelius.html (141 words)

	Claudius (gens)
		Appius Claudius Caecus, consul 307 BC, 297 BC (or 296 BC)
		Marcus Claudius Marcellus, consul 222 BC, suffect 215 BC, 214 BC, 210 BC, 208 BC
		Gaius Claudius Marcellus, consul 51 BC, 50 BC
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/Gens_Claudia.html (217 words)

	Carthage
		The primary enemy of Syracuse, however, remained untouched, and in 405 BC Hannibal Mago led a second Carthaginian expedition to claim the entirety of the island.
		Although Hannibal Mago's successor, Himilco, successfully extended the campaign by breaking a Greek siege, capturing the city of Gela, and repeatedly defeating the army of Dionysius, the new Tyrant of Syracuse, he, too, was weakened by the plague and forced to sue for peace before returning to Carthage.
		In 311 BC he invaded the last Carthaginian holdings on Sicily, breaking the terms of the current peace treaty and laying siege to Akragas.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/c/ca/carthage.html (2318 words)

	CalendarHome.com - First Punic War - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the middle of the 3rd century BC the power of Rome was growing.
		In 288 BC the Mamertines -- a group of Italian mercenaries originally hired by Syracuse to attack Carthage -- occupied the city of Messina in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.
		On at least two occasions (255 and 253 BC) whole fleets were destroyed in bad weather; the disaster in 255 BC counted two hundred seventy ships and over one hundred thousand men lost, the greatest single loss in history.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=First_Punic_War (3559 words)

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		Gaius Claudius Marcellus (consul 49 BC) was married to Augustus' sister Octavia Minor and their son, Marcus, was married to Augustus' daughter, Julia the Elder.
		Marcus Claudius Marcellus, consul 166 BC, 155 BC, 152 BC
		Publius Clodius, tribune of the plebs 58 BC
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	Punic Wars - Crystalinks
		In 288 BC, the Mamertines, a group of Italian mercenaries, occupied the city of Messina in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.
		In 264 BC, Roman troops were deployed to Sicily (the first time a Roman army acted outside the Italian peninsula) and forced a reluctant Syracuse to join their alliance.
		In 195 BC, after he was denounced to the Romans for plotting an attack with the help of the Seleucid king, Antiochus III, Hannibal fled to Antiochus's court in Syria.
	www.crystalinks.com /punicwars.html (3919 words)

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		When Antigonus's son Demetrius I of Macedon renewed hostilities (297 BC), during his absence in Greece, Lysimachus seized his towns in Asia Minor, but in 294 BC concluded a peace whereby Demetrius was recognized as ruler of Macedonia.
		In 288 BC Lysimachus and Pyrrhus in turn invaded Macedonia, and drove Demetrius out of the country.
		In 284 BC Arsinoe, desirous of gaining the succession for her sons in preference to Agathocles (the eldest son of Lysimachus), intrigued against him with the help of her brother Ptolemy Keraunos; they accused him of conspiring with Seleucus to seize the throne, and he was put to death.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Lysimachus (604 words)

	(33) Two more attempts of Jones to destroy the Divinity of Sanskrit language and to mutilate Bhartiya history.
		But those people (the British diplomats) were determined to do it that way because they wanted to squeeze the entire history of India within the time frame of their Aryan fiction story.
		The first king of the Maurya dynasty, called Chandragupt Maurya, was in BC 1500’s, and the first king of the Gupt dynasty, called Chandragupt Vijayaditya, was in BC 300’s.
		Chandragupt ruled from 328 to 321 BC and his son Samudragupt Ashokaditya from 321 to 270 BC.
	www.encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /articles/33_two_more.htm (1295 words)

	Carthage - Crystalinks
		In the early 6th century BC, Hanno the Navigator is supposed to have sailed down the African coast as far as Nigeria.
		In 509 BC a treaty was signed between Carthage and Rome indicating a division of influence and commercial activities.
		In a single child cemetery called the Tophet an estimated 20,000 urns were deposited between 400 BC and 200 BC, with the practice continuing until the early years of the Christian period.
	www.crystalinks.com /carthage.html (3393 words)

	sociology - Carthage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By the beginning of the 5th century BC, Carthage was the commercial center of the region, a position it would retain until overthrown by the Roman Republic.
		In 315 BC Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse, seized the city of Messene (present-day Messina).
		In 311 BC he invaded the last Carthaginian holdings on Sicily, breaking the terms of the current peace treaty, and laid siege to Akragas.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Carthage (2716 words)

	First Punic War
		In 288 BC these mercenaries, who called themselves Mamertines (sons of Mars), while returning home from service with Syracuse, took Messana through treachery.
		Led by Manlius Vulso and Atilius Regulus the Romans landed at Aspis in 256 BC and established a fortified campe at Clypea.
		By 252 BC this change brought about more success in Sicily with the capture of Lipara and Thermae, the defeat of a Carthaginian relief effort at Panormus, and the onset of a lengthy siege of Lilybaeum.
	www.unrv.com /empire/first-punic-war.php (2897 words)

	Hellas: Almanac of the Diadochi :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		After the Diadochi Period (323 BC -- 280 BC), three strong dynastic kingdoms emerged as major successors of Alexander's domain -- the Seleucid Empire in Asia, the Antigonid Empire in Macedonia and Greece and the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt.
		Defeated the Galatians in Asia Minor (275 BC) and fought against Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt for the control of Phoenicia and Syria.
		Demetrius Poliorcetes (‘the besieger, taker of cities') -- Macedonian general (337 BC -- 283 BC), son of Antigonus Monophtalmus, king of Macedonia (294 BC -- 288 BC).
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	OT Historically Reliable
		The Code of Hammurabi, that was written between 2000-1700 BC, was found by a French archaeological expedition (1901-1902) under M. Jacques de Morgans direction at an ancient Susa site to the east of the region of Mesopotamia This code was written on a piece of fl diorite.
		Strabo, a pagan historian and geographer born in 54 BC also confirmed the history of the Jews and their escape from Egypt under the leadership of Moses.
		The Obelisk was a for-sided stone inscription that recorded the conquest of the Assyrian King Shalmaneser II over several kingdoms including King Jehu of Israel about 841 to 814 BC The Obelisk also refers to Omri, the son of Jehu which confirms the record of the Book of Kings in the Bible.
	www.layevangelism.com /qreference/chapter38b.htm (4073 words)

	Hellas: Antigonid Macedonia :: 0 A.D. :: Wildfire Games
		The Antigonid dynasty ruled the kingdom of Macedonia continuously from the demise of the dynasty of Cassander in 294 BC until the Roman conquest in 168 BC, with the exception of a brief period of tumult (288 BC — 277 BC).
		During the winter of 223 BC, when the Macedonian army had settled in their headquarters, and Antigonus was wintering with his close friends at Argos, the Spartan raided the countryside, reaching the very walls of the city.
		The throne was passed to the youthful Philip V (220 BC — 179 BC), the son of Demetrius II.
	wildfiregames.com /0ad/page.php?p=1576 (3852 words)

	First Punic War - Military History Wiki
		In the middle of the 3rd century BC, the Roman Republic's reputation was rising.
		Following centuries of internal rebellions and disturbances, the whole of the Italian Peninsula was tightly secured under Roman hands, with all enemies, such as the Latin league or the Samnites, defeated and the invasion of king Pyrrhus of Epirus overcome.
		In 288 BC, a group of Italian mercenaries, the Mamertines, occupied the city of Messina in the north-eastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /index.php?title=First_Punic_War (2412 words)

	Ptolemy II Philadelphus Summary
		Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Greek: Πτολεμαίος Φιλάδελφος, 309–246 BC), was the king of Ptolemaic Egypt from 281 BC to 246 BC.
		Egypt ended as the undisputed naval power of the eastern Mediterranean; the Ptolemaic sphere of power extended over the Cyclades to Samothrace, and the harbours and coast towns of Cilicia Trachea ("Rough Cilicia"), Pamphylia, Lycia and Caria were largely in Ptolemy's hands.
		In a second war with the Seleucid kingdom, under Antiochus II Theos (after 260 BC), Ptolemy sustained losses on the seaboard of Asia Minor and agreed to a peace by which Antiochus married his daughter Berenice (ca 250 BC).
	www.bookrags.com /Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus (937 words)

	about
		The Victory is considered one of the great surviving masterpieces of Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period, despite the fact that the figure is significantly damaged, missing its head and outstretched arms.
		By an unknown artist (presumably Rhodian in origin), the sculpture is thought to date from the period 220 BC - 190 BC (though some scholars date it as early as 250 BC or as late as 180 BC).
		A partial inscription on the base of the statue includes the word "Rhodhios" (Rhodes), indicating that the statue was commissioned to celebrate a naval victory by Rhodes, at that time the most powerful maritime state in the Aegean.
	fragment.nocturn-glare.net /Samothrace/about.htm (343 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mencius
		The oldest written records date from about 1400 BC in the period of the Shang dynasty, but the elaborate system of notation used even then argues in...
		, dynasty of China, which ruled from c.1027 BC to 256 BC The pastoral Chou people migrated from the Wei valley NW of the Huang He c.1027 BC and overthrew the Shang dynasty.
		The Chou built their capital near modern Xi'an in 1027 BC and moved it to Luoyang in 770 BC Initially the Chou dominated the N...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mencius (780 words)

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		Year -20 x 288 = -5760: 9520 BC - 11,600 years ago the Ice Age ended, and (according to Manetho) the Rule of Mortal Humans began.
		Year 1 x 288 = 288: 3472 BC - About 5400 years ago the Watson Brake Mound Complex was constructed in North America, and about 5300 years ago, the first of the Five Rulers of China, Fu Xi, discovered the Ho Tu pattern and the 8 trigrams of Fu Xi..
		In 883 BC the reign of Ashurnasirpal II in Assyria began, and Assyria ascended in power while Israel began to decline, leading to the defeat of Israel by Assyria around 722 BC.
	www.valdostamuseum.org /hamsmith/SparChron.html (1212 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > 288 BC
		Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC
		Decades: 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC - 280s BC - 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC
		King Demetrius I of Macedon flees Macedonia after an attack by Pyrrhus of Epirus.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/28/288_BC (98 words)

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		In the seventh century BC, Greek colonists established the city of Cyrene on the Libyan coast.
		Feula, (commonly known as giant fennel), a large group of plants with deeply divided leaves and yellow flowers, the pungent sap from silphium's stems and roots was used in cough syrups.
		The first century BC Roman poet Catullus wondered how many "kisses" he and his girlfriend Lesbia might enjoy.
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		AR tetradrachm of year 195 (=118/7 BC) of Ake-Ptolemais (13.67 g).
		AR tetradrachm of March 285 (=27 BC) (14.90 g).
		AR tetradrachm of August 311 (=1 BC) (9.94 g).
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	Osprey - Greek swords and swordmanship
		Nevertheless, they filled a real gap in Greek military training, which was only remedied at Athens in 335 BC when the reforms of the influential politician Lycurgus improved the system of hoplite training by, among other things, contracting specialist instructors in different skills-at-arms.
		The Lakedaimonians continued to use their short swords, and the same jokes, right down to the age of Philip and Alexander of Macedon, by which time it was no longer in widespread use in other Greek armies.
		The way in which the words encheiridion, machaira and xiphos are interchanged in these passages relating to the Lakedaimonian short sword, even allowing for some inaccuracies in their transmission from the original source down to the pen of Plutarch, demonstrates how the different ancient Greek words for swords are applied quite irregularly.
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	DBM - Antigonid Successor
		Over 9000 are recorded in the phalanx at Paraitakeni; Demetrios in 314 BC had some 10000 mercenaries compared to just 2000 Macedonian foot, and had reputedly 15000 merceanries of all sorts by 302 BC, the vast majority, if not all of which, were Greeks.
		Pre 315 BC Naval: Antigonos had a small fleet at Byzantium in 318 BC, including transports (seemingly small boats) filled with archers, slingers and other psiloi; the larger vessels had marines picked from the bravest of his infantry ('hypaspists').
		Demetrios had 400 in 314 BC, and in 312 BC had 500 such slingers, plus 1000 archers and (possibly non-Persian) javelinmen, all possibly in addition to his 43 elephants, which had the own attached psiloi.
	iworg.com /strongbow/LUS/AntigonidSuccessorDBM.htm (2652 words)

	Contemporaries 800 BC-AD 600, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Theban strategist, killed in battle in 362 BC.
		Known as Fulgentius Mythographus, he was influential during the Middle Ages, when his "Mitologiarum libri tres" explained the myths by etymology and allegorism.
		Gladiator who led a revolt of slaves in 73-71 BC.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Contemporaries.html (609 words)

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	Greek antiquities, swords, statue, jewelry and pottery
		Greek pendant 138-129 BC Solid silver Antiochos VII coin designed in a modern oval-shaped Vermeil setting of 22KT gold plate finish over pure silver.
		On the reverse, an eagle stands on the beak of a galley, a palm branch in the background, the field with various inscriptions.
		Greek pendant 315 - 294 BC Solid silver Alexander the Great tetradrachm designed in a modern circular Vermeil setting of 22KT gold plate finish over pure silver.
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