-155

This page relates to the year -155 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

  • With Rome, Consul At of P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (for the second time), Marcus Claudius Marcellus (for the second time).
  • Athens sends to Rome an embassy concerning the territory of Oropos, made up of the philosophers Diogène of Babylon, Critolaos and Carnéade.
  • Revolts in Spain, repressed hard by Rome (War Lusitanian, end in -152). The war for independence (the war of fire described by Polybe) is prolonged during twenty and one years.
  • Bag of Priène by the king of Cappadoce.

Art & culture

  • Athens sends to Rome representatives of its three universities of Philosophie: the New Academy (Carnéade), the Stoicism (Diogène of Babylon) and the peripatetic school (Critolaos, of the Lyceum ). The Athenian delegation fills with enthusiasm youth Roman E.
    • Of the Greek schools of philosophy is installation in Rome.
    • Carnéade makes scandal by two contradictory conferences on the same topic.
    • the Épicuriens in discredit near the authorities Roman be are excluded.

Births

Death

  • Tibérius Sempronius Gracchus, father of Gracques.

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