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Events

  • Third war samnite.
  • Bataille of Sentinum
  • the king Thrace Seuthès III builds on left bank of Tonzos (Toundja) a new capital, Seuthopolis (fine) on a checkerboard plan, whose ramparts enclose 5 ha. The city is ruined dice the end of.
  • Failure of a Celtic forwarding in Thrace at the beginning of the 3rd century.

Significant characters

Religion

  • the stoical philosopher Évhémère of Messine writes its “ Crowned Histoire ”.
  • Egypt:
    • Creation of Sarapis (Sérapis) by a commission of theologists (with of which Manéthon) charged by Ptolémée Ier with creating a god that its Greek and Egyptian subjects can adore together.
    • Assimilation Aphrodite - Isis and Adonis - Osiris. Isis tends to becoming a universal goddess.
    • Hermetism: assimilation Hermes - Thot. Hermes Trimégiste is regarded as the inventor of all sciences.

Art & culture

  • Thrace: tomb with cupola of Kazanlik (fine of), decorated with frescos certainly due to Greek artists. Treasury of Panagurichté (close to Philippopolis) composed of nine vases weighing together more than 6 kg of fine gold and carried out by Greek artists for a prince thrace (end of fourth century BC).
  • Theater of Argos.

  • Beginning of the construction of Didymeion, temple of Apollon to Didymes close to Milet (116 X 52 m) at the beginning of third century BC
  • Mosaïques of the palate of kings de Macédoine with Peeled (Dionysos on the panther, scenes of hunting).
  • Philoxénos of Erétrie, painter (mosaic of the Battle of Issos of the archaeological Museum of Naples copy undoubtedly one as of its tables)
  • the Greek sculptor Charès installs its statue of the God - sun of 35 m, the colossus, with the entry of the port of Rhodos.

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • the Greek mathematician Euclide founds the mathematical school of Alexandria. It organizes all former research and adds to them his to it clean (postulate of Euclide). It poses the principle of its Géométrie in the Éléments , which made authority until the 19th Auteur century also of the “ Données ”, of the “ Porismes ” (lost), and of a Optique .

  • the Greek doctor Hérophile sign importance of the pulsation for the diagnosis.

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