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| 1 | ROM Embassies from Prusias, Rhodes, and the Achaeans appear before the Roman senate; the Romans finally agree to renew their alliance with Rhodes.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_30.30'1-32'12;* ~[Liv]:Per_46; { CAH_8'338, '380.} |
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| 1a | AEG {26 Gamelion -G} Document: Syll_662, a decree of Delos in honour of Amphicles, a lyric poet. |
| 1b | EGY {5 Tybi -E = February} Document: AET_9.10'C-D, recording building work on the temple of Satis in Elephantine. |
| 2 | PAL {15 Xanthicus -M = March} Antiochus IV and two Roman legates, Q.Memmius and T.Manius, write to the Jews, following negotiations between Lysias and Judas.
* Read 2Maccabees' account @ +2Macc_11'13-21,* #'27-12'2; MegTaan_12'8; { CAH_8'350; Green_518.} |
| 2a | GRE {16 Scirophorion -G} Document: Syll_661, an Athenian decree in honour of the demarch of Eleusis. |
| 3 | EGY << Ptolemy suppresses a rebellion in the Thebaid and captures Panonpolis.
@ ~Diod_31.17b'1; { Hölbl_p181-182.} |
| 4 | PER << Antiochus IV campaigns against the Parthians.
@ Tac:Hist_5'8; { See Walbank_p473.} |
| 4a | ASI << Document: SEG_57.1150, a letter from Eumenes II granting concessions to the town of Apolloniou Charax. |
| 5 | EGY {? October} Ptolemy VI is expelled from Egypt by his brother.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_39.7'5;* Diod_31.18'2; ~[Liv]:Per_46; Trog:Prol_34; { OCD³; Bennett.} |
| 6 | PAL ++ The desolation of the temple at Jerusalem, caused by Antiochus, lasts for three and a half years.
* Read Josephus' account @ Joseph:BJ_1'19,* '32, 5'394, :AJ_10'271, '275-276; Porph:Fr_58; Malal_207. |
| 7 | {25 Kislev -J = December} Purification of the temple at Jerusalem.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ Daniel_7'25, 8'14, 12'6-12; #1Macc_4'36-61;* #2Macc_10'1-8; MegTaan_8'1, 8'3, #9'4; Joseph:BJ_1'39-40, :AJ_12'316-326; ChronPasc_464'B; Sulpit_2'22; August:DeCiv_18'45;(↓) Malal_206, 207; { CAH_8'349=165; OCD³.} |
| 8 | PAL ?? Document: Daniel_, the book of Daniel, according to Porphyrius.
@ Porph:Fr_35. |
| 9 | ARA ?? Antiochus sends an expedition to explore the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf.
@ Plin:HN_6'147, '152. |
| 10 | SYR ?? A plague at Antioch is stopped, by following the advice of a priest called Leius.
@ Malal_205. |
| 10a | ?? Philonides persuades Antiochus to support Epicurean philosophy.
@ Phld:Phil_44, 45. |
| 11 | ?? Antiochus celebrates his "marriage" to the local goddess at Hierapolis, and takes away the temple treasures as his dowry.
@ ~GranLic_5. |
| 11a | AEG ?? Document: OGIS_250, a statue of Antiochus, the benefactor of Athens, at Delos. |
| 12 | SYR ?? Antiochus IV pays for temples at Antioch and Athens, and many other building projects.
* Read Livy's account @ Polyb_26.1'11; Vitr_7.pr'15, '17; Liv_41.20'6-9;* Strab_9'396,(1.17) 16'750;(2.4) Paus_5.12'4; ~GranLic_6; Liban:Or_11'125;B AmmMarc_22.13'1; Malal_205. |
| 13 | ++ General remarks on the quixotic character of Antiochus.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_26.1a'1-1'14;* Athen_2.45'c, 10.438'd-f<q" PtolEuerg_3>; Diod_29.32'1; Liv_41.20'1-13; ~GranLic_4-5; Aelian:VH_2'41; Porph:Fr_54. |
| 14 | PER {month9 -B = Nov./Dec.} Death of Antiochus IV, after an unsuccessful attack on a temple in Elymais; accession of Antiochus V.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ Daniel_8'25; +BabylChron_BM.35603'R14-15; Polyb_31.9'1-4; +1Macc_6'1-17;* 2Macc_1'13-17, 9'1-29, 10'9-13; ~[Liv]:Per_46; Joseph:AJ_12'354-361; Appian:Syr_66;(↓) ~GranLic_6; Porph:Fr_53, 56; +[Euseb]:Chron_253,(↓) 263; +Hieron:Chron_1853; Sulpit_2'22; ExcBarb_46A; { CAH_8'352; Green_439.} |
| 15 | ROM ?? A Roman lady called (?) Aemilia wakes up during her own funeral.
@ ~GranLic_7. |
| 16 | >> The censor Q.Philippus sets up a sun-dial, and a statue of Concordia.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Dom_130;* ~Plin:HN_7'214; Censor:DN_23'7; { CAH_8'466; DPRR.} |
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