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Spartocus IV (126 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

romanized: Spartokos) was a Spartocid king of the Bosporan Kingdom from 245 to 240 BC. Spartocus IV was a son of Paerisades II and is known for an inscription

Diocles (mathematician) (433 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Diocles (Ancient Greek: Διοκλῆς; c. 240 BC – c. 180 BC) was a Greek mathematician and geometer. Although little is known about the life of Diocles, it

Sempronia gens (2,763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

province. Marcus Sempronius C. f. M. n. Tuditanus, held the consulship in 240 BC, together with Gaius Claudius Centho as his colleague. Not much is known

Leucon II (217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

second son of Paerisades II and a Spartocid ruler of the Bosporan Kingdom in 240 BC. Leucon killed his brother, Spartocus IV, after discovering that he had

Ariobarzanes of Pontus (167 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mithridates I Ctistes in 266 BC. He died in an uncertain date between 258 and 240 BC. He obtained possession of the city of Amastris in Paphlagonia, which was

Manasseh (High Priest) (100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Mannasseh, also transliterated as Mannasses, was a Jewish High Priest (c. 245-240 BC) during the Second Temple period. He was the son of Jaddua and brother of

Latin literature (2,708 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the Latin language. The beginning of formal Latin literature dates to 240 BC, when the first stage play in Latin was performed in Rome. Latin literature

Coma Star Cluster (389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rising. The cluster used to represent the tail of Leo. However, in around 240 BC, Ptolemy III renamed it for the Egyptian queen Berenice's legendary sacrifice

List of state leaders in the 3rd century BC (1,829 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(304–284 BC) Pairisades II, King (284–c.245 BC) Spartacus IV, King (c.245–c.240 BC) Leucon II, King (c.240–c.220 BC) Hygiainon, King (c.220–c.200 BC) Spartacus

Stigler's law of eponymy (1,049 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pythagoras; and Halley's Comet, which was observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC (although its official designation is due to the first ever mathematical

Callimachus (3,748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Callimachus (Ancient Greek: Καλλίμαχος, romanized: Kallimachos; c. 310 – c. 240 BC) was an ancient Greek poet, scholar, and librarian who was active in Alexandria

List of ancient Greek poets (2,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Library of Alexandria. Aratus (Greek Aratos; c. 315 BC/310 BC – 240 BC) Macedonian Greek didactic poet, known for his technical poetry Archestratus

Theatre of ancient Rome (3,999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

honor of the Roman god Jupiter. It was as a part of the Ludi Romani in 240 BC that author and playwright Livius Andronicus became the first to produce

Gaius Claudius Centho (198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Claudius Caecus, and a member of the Claudii. He was consul in the year 240 BC. He was Roman censor in 225, interrex in 217, and Roman dictator in 213

Arsamosata (1,578 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

classical sources), near the present-day city of Elazığ. It was founded in c. 240 BC by Arsames I, the Orontid king of Sophene, Commagene and possibly Armenia

Posidippus (epigrammatic poet) (715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Posidippus of Pella (Ancient Greek: Ποσείδιππος Poseidippos; c. 310 – c. 240 BC) was an Ancient Greek epigrammatic poet. Posidippus was born in the city

Alexander (grandson of Seleucus I Nicator) (407 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

allotments granted to soldiers and he was honored at Tralles. In the year 240 BC Alexander was still loyal to his nephew Seleucus II Callinicus, as he was

Publius Aelius Paetus (406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Publius Aelius Paetus (fl. c. 240 BC – 174 BC) was a Roman consul of the late 3rd century BC. He was a prominent supporter of Scipio Africanus, and was

Aetia (Callimachus) (1,852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

precisely dated, scholars estimate it was probably composed between 270 and 240 BC. Emerging from a tradition of writing going back to the poems of Homer,

Zhao Tuo (1,578 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

historians contest that he was a foreign invader. Zhao Tuo was born around 240 BC in Zhending in the state of Zhao (within modern Hebei). When the state of

Asandhimitra (380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

According to Maha Bodhi Society, she was married to Ashoka during c. 270-240 BC. She was a trusted, faithful, and favourite wife of Ashoka. She is often

Kingdom of Khotan (10,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

Latin poetry (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

performance of a play in verse by a Greek slave, Livius Andronicus, at Rome in 240 BC. Livius translated Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, using meters that

Cleomedes (641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(384–322 BC), Pytheas of Massalia (310–306 BC), Aratus (c. 315/310 BC – 240 BC), Eratosthenes (276–195 BC), and Hipparchus (c. 190 – c. 120 BC). These

Myth of the flat Earth (3,968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Greek world when Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth around 240 BC. This knowledge spread with Greek influence such that during the Early Middle

Antioch (8,224 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

and the Royal Road. The city was the capital of the Seleucid Empire from 240 BC until 63 BC, when the Romans took control, making it the capital of the

Temple of Poseidon (Tainaron) (307 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

one of the asylum sanctuaries destroyed by the Aetolian Timaios around 240 BC, and Plutarch mentions it among the asylum sanctuaries attacked by pirates

St. Andrew Strait (358 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

caldera. The centre of the volcano is Lou Island. Lou island last erupted in 240 BC (give or take 100 years) and 340 AD, both eruptions came from the Bendal

Hamilcar Barca (7,832 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Quantius Lutatius Cerco, brother of the consul and himself consul in 240 BC, to reexamine the conditions. They added some conditions and amended some

Diameter (1,030 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

redirect targets Eratosthenes, who calculated the diameter of the Earth around 240 BC. Graph or network diameter – Length of shortest path between two nodes of

Sampul tapestry (1,329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

Sudines (1,907 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sudines (or Soudines) (Greek: Σουδίνες) (fl. c. 240 BC) was a Babylonian sage. He is mentioned as one of the famous Chaldean mathematicians and astronomer-astrologers

Drama (6,710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Roman Republic (527–509 BC) into several Greek territories between 270 and 240 BC, Rome encountered Greek drama. From the later years of the republic and

Europeans in Medieval China (12,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

Lop County (4,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

Battle of Leptis Parva (1,569 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hanno, and was under blockade for most of the war. At some point during 240 BC the Carthaginians raised another, smaller, force, which was placed under

Apollonius of Perga (10,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Perga (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Περγαῖος Apollṓnios ho Pergaîos; c. 240 BC – c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek geometer and astronomer known for his

4th century BC in poetry (106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aratus of Soli (c. 315/310 - 240 BC), Macedonia, in Greek Theocritus (c. 310 - c. 250 BC), in Greek Callimachus (c. 305 - c. 240 BC), Alexandria, in Greek Qu

Arsinoe II (1,740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Name Birth Death Notes Ptolemy 299/8 BC February 240 BC Co-regent of Egypt with her younger brother, Ptolemy II (267-259 BC), rebelled in 259 BC, subsequently

Achaean League (3,411 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Antigonus Gonatas finally made peace with the Achaean League in a treaty of 240 BC, ceding the territories that he had lost in Greece. The increased size of

Mithridates II of Pontus (446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

determined. It seems probable that it must have taken place well before 240 BC, as Memnon tells us that he was a child at his father's death, and he had

List of alchemists (1,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Boyang Xu Fu (255 BC- 210 BC) Zhang Guo the Elder (c. 600) Zou Yan (305 BC – 240 BC) Khalid ibn Yazid, known in Latin as Calid (died 704) Jabir ibn Hayyan,

Province of Trapani (897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

century BC. It was taken by the Carthaginians in 260 BC and by the Romans in 240 BC, becoming a civitas romana until 440 AD when it was sacked by the Vandals

Uncia (coin) (251 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

BC), a barleycorn (c. 280–245 BC), and the helmeted bust of Roma (from c. 240 BC). In imperial times the uncia was briefly revived under Trajan (98–117)

King Xiaowen of Qin (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

royal of Chu by birth Queen Dowager Xia, of the Xia lineage (夏太后夏氏; 300–240 BC), the mother of Crown Prince Yiren Sons: Prince Zixi (子傒; ?–?), half-brother

List of ancient Macedonians (1,424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Poseidippus of Cassandreia (c. 288 BC) comic poet Poseidippus of Pella (c. 280 BC–240 BC) epigrammatic poet Amerias (3rd century BC) lexicographer Craterus (historian)

Ocean exploration (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

developed the use of sightings on the North Star to determine latitude. c.240 BC Eratosthenes of Cyrene measures the circumference of Earth with a high precision

List of Olympic winners of the Stadion race (2,372 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Simylus of Neapolis 134th Olympiad 244 BC - Alcides of Laconia 135th Olympiad 240 BC - Eraton of Aetolia 136th Olympiad 236 BC - Pythocles of Sicyon 137th Olympiad

Epigonus of Telmessos (652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

February 240 BC. and his brother Lysimachus succeeded their father as the second Ptolemaic client king of Telmessos who ruled from early 240 BC until his

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (1,761 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Herodotus (c. 484 BC–c. 425 BC) and the poet Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305–240 BC), housed at the Museum of Alexandria, survive only as references. The Colossus

List of ancient Greek tyrants (1,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC Aristippus the Elder, after 272 BC Aristomachos the Elder, before 250-240 BC (assassinated) Aristippus, 240-235 BC (killed in action) Aristomachus the

Livius Andronicus (1,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Clodius the son of Caecus, the year before Ennius was born," that is, in 240 BC. Cicero goes on to relate the point of view of Accius, that Livius was captured

Siege of Tunis (Mercenary War) (3,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

number of Carthaginian citizens were incorporated into this army. In early 240 BC Hanno was defeated while attempting to raise the siege of Utica at the Battle

List of Stoic philosophers (66 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

275 BC) Pupil of Zeno and brother of Aratus Aristo of Chios (c. 310–c. 240 BC) Pupil of Crates, leaned towards Cynicism Apollophanes of Antioch (fl. 250

Gavali, Karnataka (889 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

people and their past, vol. 1 Volume 1: Stone Age to Mercantilism (40,000 BP-240 BC). CSCS. Retrieved 2011-11-11. Map of Gavali and Belgaum District area. Belgaum

Battle of the Saw (3,454 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

number of Carthaginian citizens were incorporated into this army. In early 240 BC Hanno was defeated at the Battle of Utica, while attempting to raise the

Tetartemorion (65 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Emporiai (Empúries) Head right Pegasus. AR Tetartemorion (0.15 g); ca. 240 BC

Bellows (1,742 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC, when it was invented, and had reached Europe by the 16th century. In 240 BC, The ancient Greek inventor Ctesibius of Alexandria independently invented

Battle of the Bagradas River (148 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Battle of Tunis, during the First Punic War Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC), also known as the Battle of the Macar, during the Mercenary War Battle

Yue (state) (1,096 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

lived in the region down to its conquest and sinification beginning about 240 BC. What set the Yue apart from other Sinitic states of the time was their

Lysimachus of Telmessos (948 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

His father ruled Telmessos from late 259 BC until his death in February 240 BC. Little is known about his early life prior to succeeding his father. Lysimachus

Historical comet observations in China (1,740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

their growing understanding of them. The earliest confirmed sighting was in 240 BC (in the Records of the Grand Historian)—with a continuous record after 164

Arc measurement (750 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Geodesy (IAG). The first known arc measurement was performed by Eratosthenes (240 BC) between Alexandria and Syene in what is now Egypt, determining the radius

Roxana (1,486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(August 2012). Mair, Victor H. (ed.). "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (230). Chinese Academy of Social

Aratus of Sicyon (5,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he had available, finding them in disarray and routing them easily. By 240 BC it had become clear to Antigonus that the Aetolians might not be ideal allies

Antigonus II Gonatas (5,348 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

252–251 BC), Nicocles (Sicyon, 251 BC), Aristomachus (Argos, assassinated 240 BC), Lydiadas, (Megalopolis, c. 245–235 BC), and Aristippus (Argos, 240–235

Chalkidiki (1,925 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

competing in the flat race of the Lykaia Poseidippus of Cassandreia (c. 310–240 BC), comic poet Erginus (son of Simylus) from Cassandreia, citharede winner

Manasses (763 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

or Menashe include: Manasseh (High Priest), Jewish High Priest, c. 245–240 BC Manasseh was the regnal name of two Khazar rulers of the Bulanids: Manasseh

Mast (sailing) (2,617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

king Hiero II of Syracuse and devised by the polymath Archimedes around 240 BC, and other Syracusan merchant ships of the time. The imperial grain freighters

Wonders of the World (2,131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Herodotus (484 – c. 425 BC) and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305–240 BC), at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of seven wonders. These

Soli (Cilicia) (1,554 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

262 BC) a poet of the New Comedy. Aratus of Soli (c. 315 BC/310 BC – c. 240 BC) a didactic poet. Athenodorus of Soli (c. 3rd Century BC) a Stoic. Chrysippus

Spendius (3,215 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was in charge of operations around Utica, Mathos around Hippo. In early 240 BC Hanno set off with the army to relieve Utica; he took with him 100 elephants

Palestrina (2,548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Præneste was situated on the Via Praenestina. Praenestine graves from about 240 BC onwards have been found: they are surmounted by the characteristic cippus

Seleucid Empire (8,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC on the eve of the murder of Seleucus I Nicator Capital Seleucia (305–240 BC) Antioch (240–63 BC) Lysimachia (secondary and de facto, 190s BC) Common languages

Figure of the Earth (2,902 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

scientific estimation of the radius of the Earth was given by Eratosthenes about 240 BC, with estimates of the accuracy of Eratosthenes's measurement ranging from

Alexander (3,205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC), Macedonian royal Alexander (grandson of Seleucus I Nicator) (fl. 270–240 BC), Greek Anatolian nobleman Alexander (Aetolian general), briefly conquered

Silk Road (13,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)", in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

Timeline of mathematics (7,795 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

New World. See 0 (number). 240 BC – Greece, Eratosthenes uses his sieve algorithm to quickly isolate prime numbers. 240 BC 190 BC– Greece, Diocles (mathematician)

Sogdia (19,885 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)", in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

Pella (2,747 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the most archaeological remains. The famous poet Aratus died in Pella c. 240 BC. Pella is further mentioned by Polybius and Livy as the capital of Philip

Punic Wars (10,931 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

veteran of the campaigns in Sicily, was given joint command of the army in 240 BC and supreme command in 239 BC. He campaigned successfully, initially demonstrating

Mathos (3,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Carthage from Tunis was under a third general, Autaritus, a Gaul. In early 240 BC Hanno, whose whereabouts during the mutiny are unknown, set off with the

Algorithm (6,767 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC and later), the Ifa Oracle (around 500 BC), Greek mathematics (around 240 BC), Chinese mathematics (around 200 BC and later), and Arabic mathematics

Yin and yang (4,131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

more convenient to deal with it first." He then discusses Zou Yan (鄒衍; 305–240 BC) who is most associated with these theories. Although yin and yang are not

Classics (5,539 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

graffiti and the Vindolanda tablets. Latin literature seems to have started in 240 BC, when a Roman audience saw a play adapted from the Greek by Livius Andronicus

Timeline of scientific experiments (1,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that air is a material substance by submerging a clepsydra into the ocean. 240 BC - Archimedes devised a principle which he later used to solve the riddle

Ancient Greek technology (1,556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

research to be of authentic Greek origin. Three-masted ship (mizzen) c. 240 BC: First recorded for Syracusia as well as other Syracusan (merchant) ships

Diodotus I (2,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tetradrachm of Diodotus I of Bactria, 250–240 BC. Obverse: diademed bust right. Reverse: nude Zeus standing left, holding aegis over his outstretched left

Jukka M. Heikkilä (452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

writes historical fiction set in the ancient world. Sisilian prinsessa - 310–240 BC Antigonos, jumalten poika - 302–294 BC Arkhimedes syrakusalainen - 270 BC

Eratosthenes (4,097 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cleomedes credited him with having calculated the Earth's circumference around 240 BC, with high accuracy. Eratosthenes believed there was both good and bad in

Mercenary revolt (89 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mercenary Revolt may refer to: The Mercenary War (c. 240 BC) (also, Libyan War or Truceless War), an uprising of troops employed by Carthage at the end

Diadochi (3,766 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hellenistic kingdoms as they existed in 240 BC, eight decades after the death of Alexander the Great

Geophysics (5,284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

useful. The first mention of a compass in Europe was in 1190 AD. In circa 240 BC, Eratosthenes of Cyrene deduced that the Earth was round and measured the

List of Roman laws (713 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(approval of Senate moved before the elections, not after).. Lex Hieronica 240 BC Hiero II King of Sicily Taxation of Sicily (the legislation of Hiero II

Earth's circumference (2,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

According to Cleomedes' On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies, around 240 BC, Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in Ptolemaic Egypt

Salammbô (Reyer) (485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Reyer's death. Place: Carthage Time: 240 BC In 1863, Modest Mussorgsky also started writing text and music for an opera

Spartocid dynasty (1,486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paerisades II circa. 284-245 BC Son of Spartokos III Spartokos IV circa. 245-240 BC Son of Paerisades II Leukon II circa. 240-220 BC Alkathoe Son of Spartokos

Watermill (5,531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC, and that of the vertical-wheeled mill to Ptolemaic Alexandria around 240 BC. The Greek geographer Strabo reports in his Geography a water-powered grain-mill

Sampul (3,301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

Marsala (2,628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Carthaginian ship (240 BC)

Syria (23,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"King of Syria" and the city of Antioch being its capital starting from 240 BC. Thus, it was the Greeks who introduced the name "Syria" to the region.

Flat Earth (8,815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

its circumference. The Earth's circumference was first determined around 240 BC by Eratosthenes. By the 2nd century AD, Ptolemy had derived his maps from

History of theatre (16,326 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Roman Republic (509–27 BC) into several Greek territories between 270 and 240 BC, Rome encountered Greek drama. From the later years of the republic and

Publius Sempronius Tuditanus (1,276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cousin of the censor Marcus Sempronius Tuditanus who had been consul in 240 BC with Gaius Claudius Centho and censor in 230 BC with Quintus Fabius Maximus

Literature (9,223 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

influence on Western literature. The beginning of Roman literature dates to 240 BC, when a Roman audience saw a Latin version of a Greek play. Literature in

Hellenistic period (19,535 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hellenistic era, Theocritus was a major poet who popularized the genre. Around 240 BC Livius Andronicus, a Greek slave from southern Italy, translated Homer's

Number (8,278 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Euclidean algorithm for finding the greatest common divisor of two numbers. In 240 BC, Eratosthenes used the Sieve of Eratosthenes to quickly isolate prime numbers

Vulci (2,860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Roman period, even though the Romans built the Via Aurelia through it in 240 BC. However, large buildings in the city date to this period. A surviving milestone

Ptolemy III Euergetes (3,558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commander of the League and supplied them with a yearly payment. After 240 BC, Ptolemy also forged an alliance with the Aetolian League in northwest Greece

Kos (4,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fortification works at Alisarna and multiple richly decorated houses. In 240 BC, Ziaelas of Bithynia, Seleucus II Callinicus and Ptolemy III Euergetes provided

List of ancient Olympic victors (765 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

134 § 244 BC Stadion Alkidas Sparta Eusebius 135 § 240 BC Stadion Eraton Aitolia Eusebius 135 § 240 BC Boxing Kleoxenos Alexandria Eusebius 136 § 236 BC

Italy (26,940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exerted an influence on the surrealists. Formal Latin literature began in 240 BC, when the first stage play was performed in Rome. Latin literature was,

Sicilia (Roman province) (9,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is not clear how this system took form. It has been suggested that from 240 BC the government of western Sicily was entrusted to a quaestor sent annually

List of fiction set in ancient Rome (3,671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

character in the story. "Salammbô", published 1977 by Gustave Flaubert. 240 BC. The novel is set before and during the Mercenary War, an uprising of mercenaries

Academy (8,715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC), Polemon (314–269 BC), Crates (c. 269–266 BC), and Arcesilaus (c. 266–240 BC). Later scholarchs include Lacydes of Cyrene, Carneades, Clitomachus, and

List of kings of Thrace and Dacia (4,615 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

280-273 BC) (?) Adaeus, Thracian or Macedonian ruler near Cypsela (c. 260-c. 240 BC) Abrupolis of the Sapaeans, fought with Antigonid Macedonia (by 197-172

Manetho (4,721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the mention of someone named Manetho in the Hibeh Papyri, dated to 241/240 BC, is in fact the celebrated author of the Aegyptiaca, then Manetho may well

Earth radius (4,381 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of the circumference of the Earth was performed by Eratosthenes in about 240 BC. Estimates of the error of Eratosthenes's measurement range from 0.5% to

Zeus (17,298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

been born in Lydia, while the Alexandrian poet Callimachus (c. 310 – c. 240 BC), in his Hymn to Zeus, says that he was born in Arcadia. Diodorus Siculus

List of Jewish leaders in the Land of Israel (2,580 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Just Eleazar (High Priest) (c. 260–245 BCE) Manasseh (High Priest) (c. 245-240 BC) Onias II (High Priest) Simon II (High Priest) / Simeon the Just Onias III

List of kings of the Cimmerian Bosporus (1,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Spartokos III 304 BC–284 BC Paerisades II 284–c. 250 BC Spartokos IV c. 250–c. 240 BC Leukon II c. 240–210 BC Hygiainon (regent) c. 210–c. 200 BC Spartokos V

Trebula Mutusca (628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

history of the temple can be divided into several stages: foundation 265 - 240 BC; restoration of the portico end of the 2nd century BC; construction of a

Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great (2,207 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

242/241 BC 6th P. Petrie II 44 = III 54b. 050 Archibios, son of Pheidon 241/240 BC 7th P. Hausw. 2; 8; 9. 051 Onomastos, son of Pyrgon or Pyrrhon 240/239 BC

Ancient literature (4,684 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ecclesiastes Greek: Apollonius of Rhodes: Argonautica Callimachus (310/305-240 BC), lyric poet Manetho: Aegyptiaca Theocritus, lyric poet Latin: Lucius Livius

Cato the Elder (6,788 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

though he brought out a play in the consulship of Cento and Tuditanus [i.e., 240 BC], six years before I was born, yet continued to live until I was a young

List of former national capitals (406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Empire Seleucia Seleucid Empire Iran 305 BC 240 BC moved to Antioch Antioch Seleucid Empire Iran 240 BC 64 BC conquered by Roman Republic Ctesiphon,

Cyrene, Libya (6,363 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Academic skeptic philosopher Callicratidas, a general Callimachus (310/305 – 240 BC), poet, critic, and scholar at the Library of Alexandria Cratisthenes of

Ptolemaic Kingdom (12,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Muses"). During Alexandria's brief literary golden period, c. 280–240 BC, the Library subsidized three poets—Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and

Buddhist logico-epistemology (7,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

date is debated by scholars but it might date to the time of Ashoka (C. 240 BC). Western scholarship by St. Schayer and following him A. K. Warder, have

Roman Republican currency (4,868 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Romans) and production continued to about the end of the first Punic war in 240 BC, overlapping some of the developments described below. According to Pomponius

List of battles by casualties (4,936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(ancient source & includes prisoners) Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC) 240 BC Mercenary War 8,000+ Battle of Telamon 225 BC Roman–Gallic wars 56,000+

Antipater son of Epigonus (982 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Telmessos, ruled as the second Ptolemaic Client King of Telmessos from February 240 BC until his death in 206 BC. Lysimachus’ son, Ptolemy II of Telmessos, ruled

Lycia (8,773 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dedicated a monument to Ptolemy, called the Ptolemaion circa 270 BC. By 240 BC Lycia was firmly part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, centred on Egypt, and remained

List of wars between democracies (3,518 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

of democracy and oligarchy; after the disastrous end of that war, about 240 BC, there was a democratic change, the direct election of a pair of executives

Battle of Cape Ecnomus (4,290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Carthaginian naval ram, c. 240 BC; note the gouges towards the bottom, probably from bow to bow contact with another vessel

History of geophysics (3,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hazards such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, tides, and floods. In circa 240 BC, Eratosthenes of Cyrene measured the circumference of Earth using geometry

Unidentified flying object (19,472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

famous example is Halley's Comet: first recorded by Chinese astronomers in 240 BC and possibly as early as 467 BC as a strange and unknown "guest light" in

Milan Papyrus (926 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tzetzes to the Hellenistic epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella (c. 310 – c. 240 BC), a Macedonian who spent his literary career in Alexandria. The initial

Meridian arc (4,707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

realistic value was calculated by Alexandrian scientist Eratosthenes about 240 BC. He estimated that the meridian has a length of 252,000 stadia, with an

Morgantina treasure (674 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Romans in 211 BC. The creation of the objects is dated to around 240 BC, when the city was subject to Hieron II of Syracuse.[citation needed]. The

Puri (8,175 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

claimed were the bones of Krishna. Even during Maurya king Ashoka's reign in 240 BC, Kalinga was a Buddhist center and that a tribe known as Lohabahu (barbarians

Water wheel (8,994 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the early 3rd century BC, and the horizontal-axle watermill to around 240 BC, with Byzantium and Alexandria as the assigned places of invention. A watermill

Outline of metaphysics (3,191 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cosmology based on the School of Yin Yang which was headed by Zou Yan (305 BC – 240 BC). The school's tenets harmonized the concepts of the Wu Xing (Five Phases)

Timeline of the history of the scientific method (2,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

expounds geometry as a system of theorems following logically from axioms. c.240 BC – The Greek polymath Eratosthenes calculates the circumference of the Earth

Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (24,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

the Achaean League. Antigonus II made peace with the Achaean League in 240 BC, ceding the territories that he had lost in Greece. Antigonus II died in

Sundial (14,031 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sundial—the "dial of Ahaz" mentioned in Isaiah 38:8 and 2 Kings 20:11. By 240 BC Eratosthenes had estimated the circumference of the world using an obelisk

Loulan Kingdom (4,786 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012), "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)," in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230, Chinese

History of mineralogy (2,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the School of Naturalists headed by the philosopher Zou Yan (305 BC–240 BC). Within the broad categories of rocks and stones (shi) and metals and alloys

Mercenary (19,330 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

popular culture Mercenary Soldiers' Revolt in Brazil Mercenary War (c. 240 BC) – also called the Libyan War and the Truceless War Montreux Document Private

Eponymous archon (3,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cydenor 244–243 BC Lysiades 243–242 BC Eurycleides 242–241 BC Phanomachus 241–240 BC Lyceus 240–239 BC Polystratus 239–238 BC Athenodorus 238–237 BC Lysias 237–236

Ancient Greek art (12,649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(August 2012). Mair, Victor H. (ed.). "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)" (PDF). Sino-Platonic Papers (230). University of Pennsylvania

Hellenistic art (8,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012). "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)", in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230. Chinese

Gisco (died 239 BC) (2,712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

wrote of his "incompetence as a field commander". At some point during 240 BC the Carthaginians raised another, smaller, force, of approximately 10,000

Italians (27,162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pieranna Garavaso and Luciano Floridi. Formal Latin literature began in 240 BC, when the first stage play was performed in Rome. Latin literature was,

Lunar eclipses by century (889 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC 7 3rd BC 228 79 64 85 03h 24m 46s 19 April 295 BC 01h 46m 07s 9 May 240 BC 6 2nd BC 240 85 86 69 03h 26m 29s 1 July 196 BC 01h 44m 34s 31 March 117

List of ancient watermills (1,978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Horizontal-wheeled mill Byzantium (assigned place of invention) Turkey Possibly c. 240 BC Vertical-wheeled mill Alexandria (assigned place of invention) Egypt Before

History of the ancient Levant (9,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

capital Seleucia in 305, but the capital was later moved to Antioch in 240 BC. Alexander and his Seleucid successors founded many poleis in Syria, which

Palais d'Antoniadis (782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Municipal Garden was a residential suburb once inhabited by Callimachus (310–240 BC), a prominent scholar at the ancient Library of Alexandria. In 168 BCE,

Military of Carthage (4,488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

275 BC, allied with Rome First Punic War, 264 BC – 241 BC Mercenary War, 240 BC – 238 BC Iberian conquest, 237 BC – 218 BC Second Punic War, 218 BC – 201

Sicilians (11,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

being constantly raided and pillaged by Mamertines, during the period (282–240 BC) when Central, Western and Northeast Sicily were put under Carthaginian

History of Sardinia (6,283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

archaeological monuments where architecture and city planning can be studied. In 240 BC, in the course of the First Punic War, the Carthaginian mercenaries on the

Baiyue (10,876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jiaozhi and Jiuzhen. Zhao Tuo was a Qin general originally born around 240 BC in the state of Zhao (within modern Hebei). When Zhao was annexed by Qin

Aulus Manlius Torquatus Atticus (3,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Preceded by Gaius Lutatius Catulus Aulus Postumius Albinus Roman consul II 241–240 BC with Quintus Lutatius Cerco Succeeded by Gaius Claudius Centho Marcus Sempronius

Claudia gens (8,610 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

C. n. Centho, the third son of Appius Claudius Caecus, he was consul in 240 BC, and dictator in 213. Gaius Claudius (C. f. Ap. n.) Centho, probably the

Sino-Roman relations (14,301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christopoulos, Lucas (August 2012). "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)", in Victor H. Mair (ed), Sino-Platonic Papers, No. 230. Chinese

Regio Patalis (3,583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the measurement of Earth's circumference by Eratosthenes of Cyrene in c.240 BC, although the method traditionally considered a used by Eratosthenes is

List of sovereign states by date of formation (7,045 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

BC–85 BC: Seleucid Empire and Kingdom of Osroene 240 BC–127 BC: Center of the Seleucid Empire 301 BC–240 BC: Part of the Seleucid Empire 305 BC–301 BC: Part

King Zhaoxiang of Qin (6,663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

five-state alliance in 247 BC, and two major victories against Qin invasions in 240 BC and 231 BC (the latter won by general Li Mu), but it never recovered to

Culture of Italy (31,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Enrico Castellani, and Piero Manzoni. Formal Latin literature began in 240 BC when the first stage play was performed in Rome. Latin literature was, and

List of wars: before 1000 (916 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Third Syrian War Part of the Syrian Wars Ptolemaic Kingdom Seleucid Empire 240 BC 238 BC Mercenary War Ancient Carthage Carthage's mercenary army of the First

History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (14,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Antigonus II finally made peace with the Achaean League in a treaty of 240 BC, ceding the territories that he had lost in Greece. Antigonus II died in

Turkic history (5,813 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Manichaeism, Judaism, Buddhism, Orthodox, Nestorian Christianity and Islam). 240 BC: Great Wall of China started to be built to protect the nation against Inner

Berenice (daughter of Ptolemy II of Telmessos) (1,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

her paternal grandfather Lysimachus of Telmessos, who ruled from February 240 BC until his death in 206 BC. She was raised in the city. She was born at the

Meanings of minor-planet names: 12001–13000 (419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

honor JPL · 12151 12152 Aratus 1287 T-1 Aratus of Soli (c. 315 BC/310 BC – 240 BC)) a Hellenistic poet and author of the Phaenomena, an influential didactic

History of geodesy (12,832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Libya, working in Alexandria, Egypt, estimated Earth's circumference around 240 BC, computing a value of 252,000 stades. The length that Eratosthenes intended

Latin prosody (6,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

dated to the first performance of a play by Livius Andronicus in Rome in 240 BC. Livius, a Greek slave, translated Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences

List of longest wooden ships (1,816 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

" 55 m (180 ft) long, 14 m (46 ft) wide Syracusia (later Alexandria) c. 240 BC Claimed to be the largest transport ship in Antiquity. She was designed

History of Xinjiang (23,936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(August 2012). Victor H. Mair (ed.). "Hellenes and Romans in Ancient China (240 BC – 1398 AD)". Sino-Platonic Papers. No. 230. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars (11,017 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Numidians during the Third Punic War and died at the age of 90. Zhao Tuo (240 BC–137 BC) – Alive during the Qin Dynasty conquest of Zhao. Participated in

List of examples of Stigler's law (5,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wolfgang Gröbner. Halley's comet was observed by astronomers since at least 240 BC, but named after Edmond Halley who computed its orbit and accurately predicted

List of History Bites episodes (27 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Not-So-Great Wall of China 1999 216 A look at the Great Wall of China (240 BC). Invasion U.S.A.! 1999 217 A look at the invasion of Washington D.C. and

Socii (11,896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Janus, the two-faced god. (Reverse) prow of a warship, a common motif of coins of this period, and virtually a symbol of the Roman Republic (c. 240 BC)

Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene (18,501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and human-induced habitat loss. Tyrrhenian vole Tyrrhenicola henseli c. 240 BC Imperial gibbon Junzi imperialis Shaanxi?, China Possibly capture as pets

List of battles by geographic location (46,629 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

240 BC – Mercenary War (Punic Wars) Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC) – 240 BC – Mercenary War (Punic Wars) Hamilcar's victory with Naravas – 240

List of people known as the Elder or the Younger (99 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aristippus the Younger c. 380 BC – ? Greek philosopher Aristomachos I died c. 240 BC Greek tyrant Father of Aristomachos II died. c. 223 BC Greek general and

Nuragic sanctuary of Santa Vittoria (5,068 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

origin, coins from Sicilian (4th century BC) and Sardinian mints (around 240 BC) and a cylindrical Cypriot torch holder decorated with three flower corollas

List of heads of state and government who have been in exile (338 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

King of Epirus Epirus 302 BC–297 BC Cleombrotus II King of Sparta Sparta 240 BC–unknown† Tegea Cleomenes III King of Sparta Sparta 222 BC–219 BC† Alexandria

List of battles before 301 (473 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Punic War 241 BC Battle of the Caecus River Attalus I defeats the Galatians 240 BC Battle of Utica Rebellious Carthaginian mercenaries defeats the Carthaginian

Elogium (literary genre) (2,296 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

can be considered elogia. The elogia of the Scipios, composed later than 240 BC, are in saturnian metre, in archaic Latin, and show the increasing Hellenisation

Alexandre Raymond (2,376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

book, Alexandre Raymond begins the history of Ankara at a precise date, in 240 BC, with "Brennus, famous leader of the Gauls", who founded a republic there

Coinage of Capua (3,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the same time Tarentum and Metapontum, which had not minted since about 240 BC, also began minting again. These centers struck silver coins with a monetary

Tolkien's ambiguity (4,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

region near Land's End, by the traveller Pytheas of Massalia in around 240 BC. Berube comments that few readers can have made this association. One pun

Spectacles in ancient Rome (6,533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

author, albeit of Greek origin, to compose a play in Latin, performed in 240 BC at the ludi scaenici organized for the Roman victory in the First Punic