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This article concerns the period 359 BC – 350 BC.
Births
359 BC
- Philip III of Macedon, brother and successor of Alexander the Great (approximate date) (d. 317 BC)
358 BC
- Seleucus I Nicator, Macedonian officer of Alexander the Great and founder of the Seleucid dynasty (d. 281 BC)[1]
356 BC
- July 20/21 – Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia (d. 323 BC).[2]
- Hephaestion, Macedonian general, soldier, aristocrat, and companion of Alexander the Great (d. 324 BC).[3]
355 BC
- Cassander, companion of Alexander the Great, successor king of Macedonia and founder of Antipatrid dynasty (approximate date) (d. c. 297 BC)
354 BC
- Hieronymus of Cardia, Greek general and historian (d. 250 BC)
350 BC
- Dicaearchus, Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and polymath (d. c. 285 BC)
- Megasthenes, Greek historian, diplomat and Indian ethnographer (approximate date)
- Shen Dao, Chinese philosopher known for his blend of Legalism and Taoism (approximate date) (d. c. 275 BC)
Deaths
359 BC
- Perdiccas III, king of Macedonia
358 BC
- Artaxerxes II, King of Persia (b. c. 436 BC)
- Alexander of Pherae, Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, Greece
- Bardyllis, Illyrian king (killed in battle by Phillip of Macedon) (b. c. 448 BC)
- Cotys I, King of Thrace
356 BC
- Chabrias, Athenian general died at Chios[4]
- Herostratus.[citation needed]
- Philistus.[citation needed]
355 BC
- Eudoxus of Cnidus, Greek astronomer and mathematician (b. c. 408 BC)
354 BC
- Dion, Greek [tyrant of Syracuse (assassinated) (b. c. 408 BC)
- Timotheus, Athenian statesman and general
- Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates (b. c. 431 BC)
353 BC
- Clearchus of Heraclea, tyrant of Heraclea Pontica (assassinated) (b. c. 401 BC)
- Iphicrates, Athenian general (b. c. 418 BC)
- Mausolus, King and Persian satrap of Caria
350 BC
- Archytas, Greek philosopher, mathematician and statesman (or 347 BC) (b. 428 BC)[5][6]
- Artemisia II, queen of Caria and sister and wife of king Mausolus of Caria[7]
- Tollund Man, human sacrifice victim on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of the Norse god Odin (approximate date)
References
[edit]- ^ Roberts, John. The Oxford dictionary of the classical world. Oxford University Press. p. 689. ISBN 9780192801463.
- ^ Ogden, Daniel, ed. (2024). The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-10884-099-6.
- ^ Wasson, Donald L. "Hephaestion". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
- ^ "Chabrias". Encyclopædia Britannica. February 21, 2024. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
- ^ David Sedley, "An Iconography of Xenocrates' Platonism", Michael Erler, Jan Erik Heßler, Federico M. Petrucci, Authority and Authoritative Texts in the Platonist Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 9781108844000, 50
- ^ David Deming, Science and Technology in World History, Volume 1: The Ancient World and Classical Civilization, McFarland, 2014, 9780786456574, 75
- ^ "Artemisia II | queen of Caria | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 4 May 2022.