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  Roman Timeline of the 4th Century BC
367 BC Lex Liciniae Sextiae is passed restoring the Consulship, plebeians admitted to the office of consul.
367 BC The Temple of Concord is built in Rome.
352 BC The tomb of King Mausolus of Caria, known as the Mausoleum, is built to house the remains of the dead King.
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 Roman Republic - ninemsn Encarta
In 494 bc a secession of plebeian soldiers led to the institution of the tribuni plebis, who were elected annually as protectors of the plebeians; they had the power to veto the acts of patrician magistrates, and thus served as the leaders of the plebeians in the struggles with the patricians.
Between 201 and 196 bc the Celts of the Po Valley were subjugated, and their territory was Latinized, although they themselves were barred from acquiring Roman citizenship.
During the 3rd and 2nd centuries bc Rome was involved in a struggle with Macedonia for domination of the Aegean Sea known as the Macedonian Wars.
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 Sicily - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
In a battle at Himera in 480 BC the Carthaginian army was completely routed by Gelon, and the Carthaginian leader, Hamilcar, was slain.
In 410 BC war was renewed between Carthaginians and Greeks for possession of the island.
In 246 BC Carthaginian Sicily became a Roman province, as did the rest of the island in 210 bc.
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 Victori - The Roman Military | BCE Timeline
387 BC In 387 BC Ancient Rome is sacked and looted by the Gauls, a neighboring empire.
367 BC In 367 BC plebeians, the lower class, gained the right to be consuls, the two chief magistrates.
343 to 290 BC In the period of 343 to 290 BC, the Romans conquered the Sabines to the North, and the Samnites to the South East.
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 Ancient Roman Chronology and Timelines - CDS Junior Classical League
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.
367 BC: 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.
52 BC: Pompey is elected as sole consul by the Senate, and Caesar is declared an enemy of the Roman Republic.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for 367
or Dionysius the Elder (born 430 —died 367) Tyrant of Syracuse (405–367).
Having prompted (400 BC) a measure to elect truly democratic generals, he secured for himself one of these generalships.
He was a leading Macedonian general of Alexander the Great, upon whose death in 323 bc, Ptolemy received Egypt in the division of Alexander's empire.
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53 BC), Gnaeus Pompeius MAgnus (106-48 BC) and Gaius Julius Caesar (102-44 BC).
Crassus and Pompey were consuls in 70 BC and again in 55 BC, after which Crassus solicited for and obtained the governorship of the rich province of Syria, with its promise of furtehr enrichment for a governor.
In 51 BC the decisive battle at Alesia was held, where he not ony succesfully besieged teh Arvernian chief Vercingetorix who was holding out in the fortified hill-city of Alesia with 80'000 troops, but Caesar also fought offf a Gallic relief force of another 250'000 infantry and 8'000 cavalry while teh siege lasted.
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  Ptolemy I Soter 367-283 BC Macedonian Greek ruler of Egypt
Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC—283 BC) was a Macedonian Greek who became the ruler of Egypt (323 BC - 283 BC) and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
Bust of Ptolemy Soter, British Museum, LondonHe was the son of Arsinoe of Macedonia -- either by her husband Lagus, a Macedonian nobleman, or by her lover, Philip II of Macedon.
In the winter of 306 BC, Antigonus tried to follow up his victory in Cyprus by invading Egypt; but Ptolemy was strongest there, and successfully held the frontier against him.
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 History International - The Fall of Great Empires
The legendary date of the founding was 753 bc; it was ascribed to Romulus and Remus, the twin sons of Rhea Silvia, a vestal virgin and the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa.
In 494 bc a secession of plebeian soldiers led to the institution of the tribuni plebis, who were elected annually as protectors of the plebs; they had the power to veto the acts of patrician magistrates, and thus served as the leaders of the plebs in the struggles with the patricians.
The other magistracies were gradually opened to the plebs: in 356 bc the dictatorship, an extraordinary magistracy, the incumbent of which was appointed in times of great danger; in 350 bc, the censorship; in 337 bc, the praetorship; and in 300 bc, the pontifical and augural colleges.
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 Damocles Trio
Damocles lived around 400 B.C. in Siracusa (Syracuse), on the island of Sicily, a part of modern-day Italy.
Damocles was an attendent in the royal court of the Greek tyrant Dionysius of Syracuse.
367 BC Tyrant of Syracuse from 405 who, by his conquests in Sicily and southern Italy, made Syracuse the most powerful Greek city west of mainland Greece.
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 Rome Unleashed - Roman Historical Timelines (755 BC to 27 BC)
390 BC Conquest of Rome by the Gauls
367 BC Licinian Laws: (1) forbid large holdings of public land; (2) enact that one consul shall be a plebeian
43 BC Octavian, Caesar's heir, with the consuls defeat Antony at Mutina and is elected consul.
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 Plato - Philosopher - Biography
In 403 BC, when democracy was restored in Athens, he had hopes of pursuing his original goal of a political career.
Socrates' execution in 399 BC had a profound effect on Plato, and was perhaps the final event that would convince him to leave Athenian politics forever.
In 367 BC Plato was invited to be the personal tutor to Dionysus II, the new ruler of Syracuse.
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 CONSUL,
This eventually led to the opening of the consulship to plebeians, and in 367 bc the famous Lex Licini ordained that one of the consuls should belong to that order.
The establishment of new magistracies, such as censor after 443 bc and aediles and praetors after 367, diminished the extent of consular jurisdiction.
Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate house by 60 conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.
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 Slitherine Software :: View topic - When we united Italy - AAR (long) by bmolsson 05-2002
In the winter of 330 BC another separatist army attacked the city of Aurunci, we understood that the Samnites now have problem with the food supply, since the city of Aurunci has been their main supply of food.
In the winter of 324 BC the war around Clusium was intensified when 3 armies from the Senones arrived supported by 2 armies of the Ligurians.
In the spring 319 BC some Ligurian armies was captured trying to evade the battle for the city of Friniates, the last city of the Ligurians.
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 Syracuse
Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC by Greek settlers from Corinth, led by the oecist Archias, who called it Sirako, refering to a nearby swamp.
In 401 BC, Syracuse contributed a force of 3000 hoplites and a general to Cyrus the Younger's Army of the Ten Thousand.
A treaty in 392 BC allowed Syracuse to enlarge further its possessions, founding the cities of Adrano, Ancona, Adria, Tindari and Tauromenos, and conquering Reggio Calabria on the continent.
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 Roman Revolution and Civil Wars by Sanderson Beck
In 114 BC after a Vestal virgin was killed by lightning, the Sibylline oracles were consulted, and a Greek and Gallic couple were sacrificed in the forum as had been done in 225 BC, though the senate finally banned human sacrifice in 97 BC.
In 65 BC Julius Caesar used his aedileship to gain popularity by providing shows of wild-beast hunts and plays; he tried to get himself elected governor of Egypt, but this was thwarted by the new man Cicero.
In 48 BC the praetor Caelius, who advocated a moratorium on all interest and debt payments, was stripped of his office by the senate and then joined Milo in a revolt in which both were killed.
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 Encyclopædia Britannica Australia -
509-27 BC) it was managed by two finance magistrates, the urban quaestors, and controlled by the Senate.
Herodotus in the 5th century BC said that he had lived in...
Probably based on a looser tribal community, it was well-enough organized to conduct negotiations with Athens in 367 BC.
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 Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
Athenian Empire 479-431 BC Athens had been destroyed in 480 BC, but after the Persian invasion was defeated the next year, the Athenians began to rebuild their walls and to make the Piraeus a major harbor, persuaded by Themistocles, who had championed their victorious navy.
Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC According to Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas had told the Thracians that the Peloponnesians did not seek empire but were struggling to end Athenian imperialism; Brasidas offered autonomy to Thrace, and his policy was confirmed in oaths by the Spartan ephors.
In 410 BC Segesta requested aid from Carthage in a quarrel with Selinus, and the latter was besieged by the western Phoenicians led by the elderly Hannibal who, avenging previous Carthaginian defeats in Sicily, destroyed the city and massacred 16,000, enslaving 5,000 while 2,600 escaped to Acragas.
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 CalendarHome.com - 4th century BC - Calendar Encyclopedia
Tollund Man, Human sacrifice victim on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of Odin.
Philip II of Macedonia (born 382, reigned 359–336 BC).
Darius III of Persia, last King of the Achaemenid dynasty (born 380, reigned 359–330 BC).
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 Roman Empire History
121 BC C. Gracchus killed; as tribune he had instituted radical reforms, including the land re-forms of his brother, T. Gracchus, and measure forcing government to supply grain at a fair price; reforms reversed after his tribunate and he was killed in subsequent ri ots.
Civil war (49-46 BC) began; Caesar, refusing to disband his army, led his soldiers in the famous crossing of the Rubicon (Jan. 10-11); marched into Italy against Pompey.
44 BC Caesar assassinated (Mar. 15) by opponents who feared his growing power; Cassius, Marcus Brutus, and Decimus Brutus among the assassins; M. Antony rose to power in Rome; began to organize against the assassins, who had fled Rome.
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 The History of Alexandria - The Ptolemies
Ptolemy I (367-283 BC), founded a family of rulers who reigned in Egypt from 323 to 30 BC This family became known as the Ptolemies.
Ptolemy I, who took title of king of Egypt about 305 BC, ruled until 285 BC Ptolemy was born in Macedonia, a region north of Greece.
Part of the library may have been destroyed during the siege of Julius Caesar in 47 BC, and in later sieges.
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 Classical Greek Online: Lesson 9
Aristotle was born in Macedonia in 384 BC.
In 367 BC he went to Athens to study with Plato.
Plato had a high regard for him, calling him the "intellect of his school." He stayed in Athens until the death of Plato in 347 BC, and after several residences elsewhere he was invited in 342 BC by Philip of Macedonia to instruct his son, Alexander, who was then 13.
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 The story of Agyrion in the Sicily Island - www.agyrion.it
In 421 BC the recalled Spartan king Pleistoanax and the Athenian general Nicias agreed on a peace for fifty years; both sides agreed to restore several cities that had been taken in the war, and all the captives were to be released.
Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC According to Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas had told the Thracians that the Peloponnesians did not seek empire but were struggling to end Athenian imperialism; Brasidas offered autonomy to Thrace, and his policy was confirmed in oaths by the Spartan ephors.
In 410 BC Segesta requested aid from Carthage in a quarrel with Selinus, and the latter was besieged by the western Phoenicians led by the elderly Hannibal who, avenging previous Carthaginian defeats in Sicily, destroyed the city and massacred 16,000, enslaving 5,000 while 2,600 escaped to Acragas.
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 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Ptolemy I of Egypt
Ptolemy I Soter (367 BC—283 BC) was the ruler of Egypt (323 BC - 283 BC) and founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty.
In 311, a peace was concluded between the combatants, soon after which the surviving king Alexander was murdered in Macedonia, leaving the satrap of Egypt absolutely his own master.
In the winter of 306 BC, Antigonus tried to follow up the victory at Cyprus by invading Egypt, but here Ptolemy was strong, and held the frontier successfully against him.
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 Xenocrates biography
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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 Ancient Rome  ::  The Roman Republic
By 367 BC, the first plebian had been elected consul, and in 450 BC, the twelve tabls were published, providing the first written, fair laws in the Roman world.
It was divided down the middle by the cloaca maxima, probably originially meant to be a storm sewer or drainage ditch.
The Samnites built up the most resistance, but by 290 BC all of central Italy was under Roman rule.
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 John Jencek Ancient Coins & Antiquities
Century BC, Carthage minted a series of gold staters of 9.4 grams (Jenkins and Lewis Group III - described as 1 ¼ shekel.) [15] with the head of Tanit on the obverse and a reverse with a horse standing.
Century BC, the next type had the head of Persophone surrounded by four dolphins on the obverse again, but a horse head with a palm tree behind on the reverse with the legend ‘MMHNT or MM [20].
The initial issues of 228 BC related to the founding of Carthago Nova with a beardless male head on the obverse and a ship’s prow on the reverse may portray Hasdrubal, Hannibal Barca’s brother-in-law who became the leader in Spain after Hamicar Barca died in 229 BC.
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 A Short History of Roman Law (Olga Tellegen-Couperus)
A Short History of Roman Law is written for students of law rather than of classics: almost half of it is devoted to general social and political history, pitched at readers completely unfamiliar with Roman history.
The approach is chronological, with sections on the early republic (to 367 BC), the late republic (to 27 BC), the principate (to 284 AD), and the dominate (to 565 AD).
Each section starts with a survey of sources, territory, population, and economy, followed by an overview of state structures and relevant political history.
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 Dionysius The Elder Biography (c.431–367 BC) Online Encyclopedia Article About Dionysius The Elder Biography ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Tyrant of Syracuse (405–367 BC) and ruler of half of Sicily, whose influence extended over most of S Italy.
His reign was dominated by intermittent warfare with the Carthaginians, his chief rivals for power in Sicily.
A patron of the arts, he invited Plato to his court, and even won a prize himself for tragedy at one of the great Athenian dramatic festivals.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/066/Dionysius-the-Elder.html   (131 words)

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