-341

This page relates to the year -341 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Beginning of the reign of Artaxerxès III, Pharaon of Egypt (fine in -338).
Second Persian domination in Egypt (fine in -332).
the Persian army conquers High-Egypt.
During nine years, Egypt is delivered to the plundering of the Asian ones. The revolts and the insurrections are repressed in a sanguinary way; the tombs and the temples are profaned.

Hermias, tyrant of Atarnée and combined Philippe II of Macedonia, is stopped, tortured and carried out by Artaxerxès III Ochos.
Spring: Athenian forwarding in Chersonèse of Thrace. Clashes between the Athenians and people of Cardia. Plunderings of the strategist Diopeithès. Philippe addresses a letter of protests to the Athenians and claims the recall of Diopeithès. Démosthène is opposed vigorously to this request ( On the businesses of Chersonèse , Troisième and Fourth Philippiques).
Battle of Crimisos. Intervention of Corinth in Sicily to push back the Carthaginians which threatened Syracuse.
the end of the victorious war of the Macedonians against the Thrace ends in its incorporation like province Macedonian.
the Macedonians seize Olympie.
At the end of -341: Athenian embassy in the Peloponnese. Alliance of Athens with Mégare, the Eubée and the Achaïe.
Athenian Embassy near the Persian king of . Agreement between Athens and Byzance (Démosthène).
Timoléon, which established the democracy with Syracuse is victorious Carthaginois in the west of the island.

Financial reforms and naval with Athens.
the Greek sculptor Praxitèle produces its statue Hermes and Dionysos teenagers .

With Rome, Consul At of C. Plautius Venox (Venno) II, L. Aemilius Mamercinus Privernas.
Fine of the first war samnite.
After an inversion of alliances, Samnites and Romains face a coalition of Latin Capouans and (revolt of the Latin Ligue, overcome in -338). Latin, encircled by the south by the Roman presence in Campania, write a book of claims and present it to the Roman government: they claim the equal rights political to the point of view of the electorate ( juice suffragii ) and of eligibility ( juice honorum ), the nomination of one of the two consuls and the recruitment of half of the Senate. The Senate pushes back the requests of the Latium, which takes the weapons. Tibur and Préneste carries out the movement, with the colonies of Setia, Velitrae, of Circei, the Volsques and Capoue itself. Lavinium, Ardée, the Herniques and Samnites support Rome. The consuls T. Manlius Torquatus and Publius Decius Mus gain three victories with Suessa Aurunca , with the Campi Fenectani in the area of Pedum, finally close to the Astura river. The broken coalition, Rome reduces successively the insurgent cities.

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