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  ROMAN REPUBLIC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By 600 BC Rome had been conquered by the Etruscans of northern Italy and was ruled by the Etruscan kings over the next century.
THE EARLY ROMAN REPUBLIC, 509-340 BC By 500 BC, the now independent city-state of Rome ruled only the small area within ten to fifteen miles of the city itself, and was part of an alliance of Latin city-states in the Tiber valley.
By 350 BC the other cities around the hills of the Tiber River had been absorbed by Rome, with their inhabitants becoming Roman citizens.
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 340 BC Information - TextSheet.com
340 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Decades: 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC - 340s BC - 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC
Years: 345 BC 344 BC 343 BC 342 BC 341 BC - 340 BC - 339 BC 338 BC 337 BC 336 BC 335 BC
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 Academics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Prerequisites: BC 165, BC 166, BN 104, and BK 101.
This course is a continuation of BC 165 and includes further study of financial accounting along with an introduction to management accounting.
As a continuation of BC 325, this course includes an in-depth study of revenues, expenses, long-term liabilities, and stockholder's equity, including earnings per share.
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 Aristotle
Plato died in 347 BC and Speusippus assumed the leadership of the
In 343 BC Aristotle reached the Court of Macedonia and he was to remain there for seven years.
After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, anti-Macedonian feeling in Athens made Aristotle retire to Chalcis where he lived in the house which had once belonged to his mother and was still retained by the family.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Aristotle.html   (3219 words)

  
 Latin War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Since the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BC, the city had become increasingly dominant within the Latin League.
In 381 BC Tusculum was absorbed by being given Roman citizenship.
Rome however rejected the proposal and in two years campaigning asserted her supremacy (340-338 BC) in the Latin War.What began as Rome's move for peace and stability ended in 340 with Rome going to war against its Latin neighbors and some non-Latin cities.
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 Xenocrates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Xenocrates left Athens with Aristotle after Plato's death in 347 BC when they were both invited to Assos.
on Plato's death, but in 340 BC he sent for Xenocrates to return to Athens to prepare to become his successor.
In 322 BC Xenocrates found himself in a directly political post when he headed a team negotiating a political settlement with Macedonia.
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 Anaxarchus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Anaxarchus (flourished around 340 BC), a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus, was born at Abdera in Thrace.
Plutarch tells a story that at Bactra, in 327 BC in a debate with Callisthenes, he advised all to worship Alexander as a god even during his lifetime, is with greater probability attributed to the Sicilian Cleon.
Diogenes Laertius (Lives 9.10.3) also says that Nicocreon, the tyrant of Cyprus, commanded him to be pounded to death in a mortar, and that he endured this torture with fortitude and Cicero relates the same story.
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 Table of Contents - Thebes
Kadmos and the dragon, 360 - 340 BC
Fifth labor: The cleansing of the stables of Augeias
The birth of Athena, jewel case, 570 - 565 BC
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 artworkstest2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 350-340 BC Praxiteles, Hermes and the infant Dionysos, from Temple of Hera, 340 BC Grave stele of a young hunter, Athens, 340-330 BC
Apollo from the roof of the Portonaccio Temple, Veii, Italy, 510-500 BC Sarcophagus with reclining couple, Cerveteri, Italy, 520 BC Banquets and musicians, detail of mural paintings in the Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, 480-470
BC Capitoline Wolf, Rome, 500-480 BC Chimera, Arezzo, Italy, 4th century BC Head of a Roman patrician, Otricoli, Italy, 75-50 BC
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 I/63 Paionian (512-284 BC)
The Paionians (Paeonians) were a loose collection of tribes who settled in the central Balkans in the valleys of the rivers Struma, Vardar and Bistricia around 4000-3500 BC (an area corresponding roughly with modern Macedonia and Serbia).
The next major development was the Persian invasion (490 BC), which upset the balance of power in the region, aiding the Thracians in their absorption of the eastern Paeonian tribes.
Macedonian was throne into a state of uncertainty by the death of Perdiccas, but Philip assumed the throne, reformed the army (providing his Greek-style phalanx with the long sarissa), and proceeded to stop both the Illyrian invasion and the Paionian raids.
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 Electronic Antiquities Volume I, Number 3
(for instance, by Demosthenes in 343 BC and by Aeschines in 340 BC).
At his instigation in 340 BC the Amphictyons, including by proclamation the Delphians (a member-state), burned the houses of the sacrilegious Amphissaeans (3.119 and 122).
The most important is the statement of Demosthenes in 343 BC in his speech De Falsa Legatione 327, in which he pictured the change in the situation.
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 Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.84   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the second part, V.-T. discusses the controversies over the dates of the murder of Cotys and of the accession of Philip, their assumed meeting at Onocarsis (rejected by V.-T.) and the identification of the anonymous Thracian king who supported the pretender Pausanias, according to Diodorus (16.2.6 and 16.3.4).
V.-T. examines the defeat of Cetriporis the son of Berisades by Philip in 356 BC and Philip's march to Maroneia in 353 BC (?) with the army of Pammenes sent by Thebes to aid the revolt of Artabazus in Asia.
V.-T. concludes with the Thracian war of 342-340 BC, which resulted in the annexation of the Odrysian kingdom by Philip and the ensuing events, including the expedition against the Scythian king Atheas in 339 BC.
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 343 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Decades: 390s BC - 380s BC - 370s BC - 360s BC - 350s BC - 340s BC - 330s BC - 320s BC - 310s BC - 300s BC - 290s BC
348 BC 347 BC 346 BC 345 BC 344 BC 343 BC 342 BC 341 BC 340 BC 339 BC 338 BC
Her king, Nectanebo II gathers his belongings and flees up the Nile to exile in Ethiopia.
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 FORVM's Fake Ancient Coin Reports
Kyme tetradrachm 2nd century BC, sold on German Ebay by the known fakes seller antika99 in July 2005 for 76€.
Aiolis, Myrina, 2nd century BC – 139 viewsAR tetradrachm, 30mm, 16.5g, cast
Akarnania, Argos Amphilochikon, 350-250 BC – 141 viewsAR stater, badly cast
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 340s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Years: 349 BC 348 BC 347 BC 346 BC 345 BC 344 BC 343 BC 342 BC 341 BC 340 BC
This page was last modified 06:19, 4 October 2005.
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 StudyWorks! Online : 340–120 BC – The Greeks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Some of his accomplishments: he invented an accurate method of calculating latitude using a calibrated sundial, theorized the relationship between tides and the phases of the moon, and attempted to determine the position of true north.
In 340 BC, Pytheas led an expedition, probably in search of tin, (an important trading product), which led him through the Straits of Gibraltar, around the coast of Brittany in western France, up to the British Isles and then northwards to the Shetland Islands.
In 146 BC, Eudoxus of Cyzicus made several voyages to India in search of spices and precious stones for Egypt's Ptolemaic rulers.
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 Miscellenous ancient coins
It was a powerful state in the 6th centuty B.C. but was weakened by a series of wars with the neighboring kingdom of Magadha and finally (4th cent.
KarshapanaPeriod of Chandragupta (circa 321 - 297 BC).
The Kingdom of Kuninda was an ancient central Himalayan kingdom from around the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century, located in the modern state of Uttaranchal in northern India.
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 Fish and Wildlife Branch - Hunting in British Columbia - Section 24 Decisions
Applicable where a person has been convicted of an automatic charge and licences affected are suspended for a specific period.
Should the conviction be an automatic licence cancellation the period of cancellation is listed in table format under section 7.04 of BC Regulation 340/82.
The conviction and length of an automatic licence cancellation cannot be appealed.
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 Athena Review Image Archive: Silver-gilt pectoral from tomb in ancient Thrace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Thracian rulers and members of the nobility were buried in monumental stone tombs, known as heroons.
Most Thracian gold and silver items in these tombs were manufactured between the 5th and 3rd century BC, when craftsmen from Thrace and northern Greece used refined repousee or hammered metal-working techniques to produce mythological and other traditional designs.
Thrace was also well known for its silver and gold mines, including the Pangeion gold mines near the Strymon delta, captured by Philip II in 348 BC.
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 New Greek I, June 16, '03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Rev.: Owl r., head facing, holding lizard in its claws, Greek legend KAMA to left, denominational 3 pellets (one visible) in ex.
Ancient Greece, Syracuse (Sicily), reign of Timoleon (344-336) BC, bronze litra, 33.20g
Ancient Greece, Syracuse (Sicily), reign of Agathokles (317-289 BC), bronze AE17
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 MuseumSurplus Greek Coins
The Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC, drained Athens of her wealth, which led the way for Sparta and later the Macedonian Empire under Philip II (Father of Alexander the Great) to take control of the Greek World.
However, the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC, drained Athens of her wealth allowing subsequent conquests by Alexander the Great, the Seleukid Empire, and finally, the Romans.
There was a large amount of silver coinage issued in the frist half of the 4th Century BC suggesting it was a place of commercial importance.
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 Tanagra: Myth and Archaeology - Louvre Museum - Absolutearts.com
Tanagras are terracotta figurines that saw the day in Greece c.340-300 BC, became extraordinarily popular all around the Mediterranean and then died out c.200 BC.
For the first time the public will have a chance to see a representative selection of these sculptures, ranging from the handmade object to the veritable masterpiece, together with a modern reinterpretation of their critical analysis.
Definition: The term “tanagras” encompasses all the figurines produced, first in Athens at the end of the third quarter of the 4th century BC, then immediately exported and imitated in Boeotia, particularly at Tanagra, and in Greece and Greek Asia Minor throughout the 3rd century BC.
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GRIECHEN KARIEN KARISCHE DYNASTEN Objekt-Nr.: 227 Pixodaros, 340 - 334 v.
WESTERN ASIA MINOR CARIA No.: 58 Estimate: £ 180 Carian Satraps, Pixodarus 340-334 BC, Didrachm 6.66g, laureate facing head of Apollo looking right, rev PIXODAROS, Zeus Labraeundus standing right holding double axe and sceptre (SNG von A 2376).
GRIECHEN KARIEN No.: 1262 Schätzpreis-Estimation: DM 400,- Pixodaros, 340 - 334 v.
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 Gan_De   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The dates we give are guesses, although we do know that at least they are roughly correct (we do know for instance that he was making observations in 365 BC).
He was one of the earliest of Chinese astronomers and made observations which he recorded giving dates and coordinates.
That is that a quotation from his book Suixing Jing (Treatise on Jupiter) was recorded by later writers.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Gan_De.html   (433 words)

  
 Late classical and Hellenistic Sculpture
100-50 BC PRAXITELES (the type), Aphrodite of Knidos, original c.
350-340 BC Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander, Venus de Milo, c.
230 - 220 BC AND POLYDORUS (attr.), Laocoon, 1 c.BC to 1 C. AND POLYDORUS (attr.), Sperlonga sculptures of Odysseus, 1 c.
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 stater of Herakleion, 340-330 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Attic helmet decorated with hippocamp Rev. Herakles kneeling 400 BC Obv.
Attic helmet decorated with hippocamp Rev. Herakles standing 380-340 BC Obv.
Attic helmet decorated with Scylla Rev. Herakles standing 340-330 BC Obv.
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 Learn more about 4th century BC in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Learn more about 4th century BC in the online encyclopedia.
You are here: Online Encyclopedia > 4th century BC
4th century BC 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - other centuries)
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 Classical Myth: Aphrodite: Images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
She is often pictured with a sceptre or a mirror.
Treasury of the Siphnians in Delphi, ca 525 BC marble, AS
Bronze mirror cover, ca 4th century BC, MM
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 History - Hellenistic: Timeline
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(B.C) Death of Perdiccas III, King of Macedonia: Perdiccas leaves infant heir Amyntas; Philip II elected King of Macedonia [ Top ]
May [Summer/Autumn 331 BC] - Battle of Megalopolis: Alexander's Macedonian regent Antipater defeats King Agis III of Sparta
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 Whisky-Jack Communications: Writing, Design, Photography à la carte
BC Car-Free: Exploring Southwestern British Columbia Without a Car A 340-page outdoor guidebook and online community.
Includes the entire 340-page BC Car-Free outdoor guide translated into Japanese.
Photographics Images gleaned from the mean streets of Vancouver and, beyond the urban blight, embracing the grand designs of nature where she thrives yet, bloodied and brutalized but not quite beaten.
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 TVM Entry Floor: Greek Macedonian and Early Helenistic Art
Macedonian hegemony over the Greek poleis took the form of an alliance that survived the assassination of Philip II.
The Greek poleis founded leagues, such as the Aetolian League, which trounced the invading Celts in 280 BC and the Achaean League, which put an end to Sparta's independence.
The spin-off Greek kingdoms: the Seleucids in Asia Minor, Syria, and Mesopotamia; the Ptolemies in Egypt; and the Attalids in Pergamum continue to reign until the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, until Rome completed its conquest of them.
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