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  Heraclides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His father was named Euthyphron, a wealthy man of high status from Heraclea Pontica, who was descended from one of the original founders of this Greek city on the south coast of the Black Sea.
in Athens and was left in charge of it during Plato's third visit to Sicily in 360 BC.
When Speusippus died in 339 BC there was an election for the new leader despite Xenocrates having been chosen to head the
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 Plato - Philosopher - Biography
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.
Plato returned to Athens in 387 BC and, on land that had once belonged to Academos, he founded a school of learning which he called the Academy.
The period from 387 to 361 BC is often called Plato's "middle" or transitional period.
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 383 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Delian League on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The name is used to designate two distinct periods of alliance, the first 478-404 BC, the second 378-338 BC The first alliance was made between Athens and a number of Ionian states (chiefly maritime) for the purpose of prosecuting the war against Persia.
In 394 BC, Conon reestablished the Athenian mastery of the sea at Cnidus.
By 351 BC, however, the status of the league had been seriously weakened in the north and in the east, and in 338 BC the league was utterly destroyed by the victory of Philip II of Macedon in the battle of Chaeronea.
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 Victori - The Roman Military | BCE Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
387 BC In 387 BC Ancient Rome is sacked and looted by the Gauls, a neighboring empire.
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.
48 BC 48 BC: Pompey is defeated by Caesar.
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 Rome: The Conquest of Italy
Rome steadily conquered all the Etruscan territory throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
In 387 BC, the roared across the Alps into Italy, soundly defeated the Roman army, and then capture and burned Rome to the ground.
Despite being defeated by the Gauls in 387 BC, the Romans successfully fought back Gaulish raiding parties throughout the middle of the fourth century BC.
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 About the Celts - History of The Celtic Invasion of Rome
By circa 300 BC, the Celts ruled a swath of Europe from the North Sea to the Black Sea and beyond.
By the second century bc, the Celts learned to mount a heated iron tire which would contract and secure itself to the wheel.
Celts were often hired as mercenaries—In 369-368 BC some 2,000 Celtic soldiers were hired by Dionysius I of Syracuse and sent to Greece to help his ally Sparta against Thebes.
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Whether because of their perceived characteristics, such as beauty, wildness, ferocity, swiftness, or wisdom, or because animals played some part in the issuing city's history or makeup, many different kinds of animals were used as coin types with frequently beautiful effect.
The first coins portraying Greeks, whether living or dead, developed only after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC His own coin portraits are therefore posthumous; the coins struck for Alexander during his lifetime in which his features are merged with those of his ancestral hero Heracles cannot be counted as true portraits.
This spectacular coin may commemorate the victory of Dionysius I over the Carthaginian general Himilcon and the deliverance of Syracuse from its Punic siege in 396 BC The reverse of the coin is signed by Euaenetus, one of the most renowned coin designers of antiquity.
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 Great King of Persia Artakshassa I Artaxerxes
The three kings that followed Xerxes on the throne--Artaxerxes I (465-425 BC), Xerxes II (425-424 BC), and Darius II Ochus (423-404 BC)--were all comparatively weak individuals and kings, and such successes as the empire enjoyed during their reigns were mainly the result of the efforts of subordinates or of the troubles faced by their adversaries.
The main events of his long rule were the war with Sparta that ended with a peace favourable to the Persians; the revolt and loss to the empire of Egypt; the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger, brother of the king; and the uprising known as the revolt of the satraps.
In 339 BC Persian troops were fighting alone in Thrace against the Macedonians, and in the following year, at the Battle of Chaeronea, Philip extended his hegemony over all of Greece--a united Greece that was to prove impervious to Persian gold.
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 3unt3
Met Socrates in 407 B.C. at age 20.
In Sicily he is almost sold into slavery for his criticism of the government.
Opened the academy in 387 BC; taught for forty years.
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 Plato
Plato was in military service from 409 BC to 404 BC but at this time he wanted a political career rather than a military one.
In 403 BC there was a restoration of democracy at Athens and Plato had great hopes that he would be able to enter politics again.
was an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences, and Plato presided over it from 387 BC until his death in 347 BC.
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 Science, civilization and society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Given that background, Plato probably entertained the idea to enter politics, too; but the violence and disorder of contemporary politics convinced him that politics is not an occupation for a man of conscience.
Plato had learned to follow his conscience from Socrates, and when Socrates was condemned to death in 399 BC he and other followers of Socrates withdrew from Athens to Megara.
In about 387 BC Plato was back in Athens and founded his Academy, an institute for the pursuit of philosophy and science.
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 Tyre Speciality
At the battle of Raphia in 216 BC, Ptolemy IV successfully held Tyre by withstanding an advance by Antiochus III of the Selukid kingdom.
In 202 BC Antiochus III again attacked Tyre and the city was lost in 200 BC by the boy King Ptolemy V and Tyre fell under Selukid control.
When Caesar arrived in 48 BC, he sacked the temple of Melquart, claiming it was due to their support for Pompey, but in reality he needed the money to meet military expenditures.
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 BC Ministry Education - Programs & Services
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BC was first in Canada to set up a province-wide toll-free youth violence and crime prevention line.
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 387 BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
392 391 390 389 388 - 387 - 386 385 384 383 382
5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Sparta and Persia sign the Peace of Antalcidas: Persia recognises the independence of the cities of Greece in exchange for dominion over Asia Minor and Cyprus.
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 390 BC Information - TextSheet.com
390 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
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Spartan mora (regiment) defeated by Athenians (led by Iphicrates) at Lechaeum
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 387 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
387 BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
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Sparta and Persia sign the Peace of Antalcidas: Cyprus and Asia Minor are Persian territory, and all Greek cities are independent.
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 Data: 999 BC to 500 BC - The Ethnohistory Project
387 15 -800 -700 A Apulian U SE I, see map 17a (15a); L "Archeologicky Atlas Evropy A Ceskoslovenska." 230 3 -800 -500 A Arenosi U Pyrenean RVV of Catalonia L These are Iberians.
Attested to in 600 to 500 BC in (27-63).
Became Roman Province in 25 BC after the fall of Carthage proper in 146 BC.
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 World History 400-300 BC
- Philip II became Regent of Macedonia in 359 B.C. He reorganized the army and made it one of the strongest in Greece.
Alexander attacked the Persian infantry in the center of the lines and achieved an overwhelming victory, decimating the Persian forces.
Darius fled the battlefield, was pursued and was eventually assassinated in Bactaria.
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 Ancient Greece: The Spartan Hegemony: 404-371 BC
From 387 BC onwards, Agesilaus and the Spartans closely controlled political decisions in the individual city-states and stacked their governments with individuals friendly to Sparta and its interests.
Socrates, who looms large as a principle foundation of Greek philosophy, had come to the end of his years when the Age of Pericles closed.
However, his pupil, who more than anyone else is responsible for synthesizing earlier Greek philosophy int a single, overarching system, began his activities as a philosopher and teacher in these years.
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 Brennus: The Sack of Rome 387 BC
Brennus: The Sack of Rome 387 BC Rome Athens Egypt Babylon Celtia Germania MachuPicchu
As matters stood in Italy at the time, Etruscan power had begun to wane, and the new star in the ascendant was the city of Rome, not yet the great power that it would later become, but rapidly expanding its sphere of influence.
Eventually in 345 BC they entered into a formal treaty with Rome, a treaty which was kept to only for the space of thirty years...
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 4 Weeks Left: Sign the Working Forest ONLINE Petition
Time is quickly running out to halt the BC government's plans to turn 45 million hectares of BC's unprotected public forests into a "Working Forest".
You can find out who your MLA is at http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/mla/3-1-1.htm or by calling Enquiry BC at 387-6121 in Victoria, (604) 660-2421 in Vancouver, and 1-800-663-7867 elsewhere in BC.
It is a tremendous risk for the BC Liberals, who are now significantly losing to the NDP in the latest public opinion polls, in their last year before an election to undertake vastly unpopular moves.
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Later, they would conquer Rome, in 387 BC, and spread into Eastern Europe, Western Ireland, and Galatia/Asia Minor (present day Turkey.) Despite the territorial acquisitions, they would remain tribesman, loyal to kinship, and practice loose political unity.
The Celts dominated central Europe in the fourth century BC, but they soon were cast out by the Greeks in 240 BC at the battle of Telamon.
Emergence of a foliage pattern borrowed from the Romans would appear on helmets during the 4th century BC - replacing the images of human and animal forms.
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 Plato   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, the excesses of Athenian political life during peacetime seems to have persuaded him to give up political ambitions.
In particular, the execution of Socrates in 399 BC had a profound effect on him and he decided that he would have nothing further to do with politics.
Plato presided over the Academy, an institution devoted to research and instruction in philosophy and the sciences until his death.
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 Rhegium (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
Originally a colony of Chalcidian Greeks, the place enjoyed great prosperity in the 5th century BC, but was captured and destroyed by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in 387 BC, when all the surviving inhabitants were sold into slavery (Diodorus xiv.
On the occasion of the invasion of Italy by Pyrrhus, the people of Rhegium had recourse to an alliance with Rome (280 BC) and received 4,000 Campanian troops within their walls, who turned out to be very unruly guests.
They were not punished by the Romans until 270 BC, when the town was restored to those of its former inhabitants who still survived.
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 I, Claudius by Robert Graves, Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian traditions converge in modern autobiographical novel
753 BC City of Rome is built (myth of Romulus and Remus, the men said to be raised by a she-wolf)
B.C. 10, Aug. 1 Tiberius Claudius Drusus is born to Drusus, son of Livia, and Antonia, daughter of Mark I Claudius Family Tree for the novel and BBC film serial
circa 4 BC birth of Jesus in the Roman province of Judea
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 380s BC
380s BC Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC
Years: 389 BC 388 BC 387 BC 386 BC 385 BC 384 BC 383 BC 382 BC 381 BC 380 BC
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 Search Results for dyad - Encyclopædia Britannica
Greek philosopher who became head, or scholarch, of the Greek Academy after the death in 347 BC of Plato, who had founded it in 387.
Whereas the school of Archytas apparently sank into inactivity after the death of its founder (probably after 350 BC), the Academics of the next generation continued “Pythagorizing” Platonic...
700 BC) in his myths of the gods Uranus, Cronus, and Zeus, and the conflict between primordial and later gods.
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 History of Psychology 387 BC to Present at AllPsych Online
History of Psychology 387 BC to Present at AllPsych Online
387 BC Plato suggested that the brain is the mechanism of mental processes.
335 BC Aristotle suggested that the heart is the mechanism of mental processes.
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