-396

This page relates to the year -396 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Carthage is reorganized according to a checkerboard plan. News and massive defenses are built.
solemn Introduction to Carthage of the worships of Déméter and Coré in atonement of a sacrilege made by Hamilcar during the seat of Syracuse. A temple their is devoted on the hill of Borj Djedid and a worship their is returned by Greek women installed with Carthage.
Revolt of the Libyan soldiers following the naval defeat of Himilcon to the seat of Syracuse, where the Carthaginians delivered like slave part of their mercenaries to the tyrant Denys Old the.

the king of Sparte Agésilas II demolishes the satrap Perse Tissapherne. (see also -395)

Forwarding of Agésilas de Sparte in Asia. It leaves to the head 2000 Néodamodes and 6000 allied to reinforce the troops already committed against Persians. Arrived to Asia, it gets rid of Lysandre and tries to treat with Tissapherne. But this last continues its military preparations, and Agésilas develops various propaganda campaigns against Persians. Victorious on ground close to Sardinian, Agésilas subjects the country to plundering. Tissapherne is relieved by the large King and is decapitated.

Carthaginian Counter-offensive in Sicily (spring). Himilcon unloads troops with Parnomos in spite of the efforts of Leptinès, brother of Denys, to bar the road with the Carthaginian fleet. Denys brings back its army to Syracuse. Himilcon besieges and takes Messine, which is shaven, then walk on Syracuse, which resists. After some reverses, Himilcon leaves of night Sicily with its Carthaginian troops (end of the summer). Syracusains seize the mercenaries left on the spot. The prisoners are sold like slaves. Some quotas of Ibères are enlisted by Denys.

Kynisca (a woman ) is credited with the Olympic victory in the race of tanks. It is in fact only the owner of the attachment, not the competitor.

the town of Milan is taken by the Gaulois Insubres.
Taken fortified town Etruscan of Véies, after ten years of seats (and nearly one century of fights) by Rome. This event opens with the Roman conquest the higher course of the the Tiber.

Melpum, meadows of Milan, are taken by Gallic the very same day catch of Véies by the Roman dictator Camille. Véies is plundered, destroyed and its population is massacred or reduced in slavery.

the Romans grow rich: the grounds and the spoils taken with Véies are divided. The exchange growth which results from this and the terrestrial traffic facility by the fall of the city benefits the trade from the urban Plèbe from Rome. A river traffic (cattle against corn of Etrurie and bronzes) inaugurates the Tiber upstream. The bronze, which makes it possible to the rich person plebeian families to constitute stocks, competes with the cattle, richness patrician par excellence like means of exchange.

Thucydide, Greek historian (born in -460). He wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War, endeavouring to highlight the political action of the men and the groups inside the city-States, and the States and the groups to the international plan. Its method is rigorously objective.

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