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unusual facts about 4th century BC


4th century BC

373 BC: The Greek city of Helike sinks into the sea causing the death of its entire population.



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Amadocus

Amadocus II, a Thracian ruler who inherited the kingdom of Cotys I in the 4th century BC

Aphroditus

One of the earliest surviving images from Athens is a fragment (late 4th century BC), found in the Athenian agora, of a clay mould for a terracotta figurine.

Archaeological Museum of Drama

The museum also has examples of Attic pottery (6th and 5th century BC), a marble bust of Dionysos, which constitutes the earliest evidence of his cult in the wider area, a hoard of coins of Philip II from an excavation at Potami, and other finds from the ancient settlement of Drama (4th century BC).

Archaeological Museum of Kavala

On the ground floor of the museum are artifacts from ancient Amphipolis including a marble bust of a woman (4th century BC), a marble grave stela of an ephebe (5th century BC), a large gold finger ring and a gold olive wreath that were found in Macedonian Tomb 1 (3rd century BC), a headless marble statue of a woman wearing a peplos (1st century BC), and a portrait bust of the Roman empress Agrippina.

Architecture of Ethiopia

Aksumite architecture flourished in the region from the 4th century BC onward, persisting even after the transition of the Aksumite dynasty to the Zagwe in the 12th century, as attested by the numerous Aksumite influences in and around the medieval churches of Lalibela.

Betsy Eby

Betsy Eby works in encaustic, a medium that dates back to the 4th Century BC and was written about in the works of Roman scholar Pliny the Elder.

Buthrotum

By the 4th century BC it had grown in importance and included a theatre, a sanctuary to Asclepius and an agora.

Conspiracy of Cinadon

The Conspiracy of Cinadon was an attempted coup d'état which took place in Sparta in the 4th century BC during the first years of the reign of Eurypontid king Agesilaus II (398 BC-358 BC).

Dexippus of Cos

Dexippus of Cos, (also called Dioxippus; 4th century BC), a Greek physician of Cos, who was one of the pupils of the celebrated Hippocrates, and lived in the 4th century BC.

Dolopia

In the 4th century BC they allied themselves with the Corinthian league under Phillip II.

Ephesos Museum

After being burned down in the 4th century BC, it was rebuilt, during which the sacrificial altar to Artemis was encircled with a spectacular surrounding wall.

Gladius

A recent metallurgical study of two Etruria swords, one in the form of a Greek kopis from 7th century BC Vetulonia, and one in the form of a gladius Hispaniensis from 4th century BC Chiusa, gives some insight concerning the manufacture of Roman swords.

History of Adjara

Colonized by Greek merchants in the 5th and 4th century BC, the coastal Adjara later came under Roman rule.

Hydraulic telegraph

The ancient Greek design was described in the 4th century BC by Aeneas Tacticus and the 3rd century BC by the historian Polybius.

Lunar theory

To the Babylonian astronomer Kidinnu (in Greek or Latin, Kidenas or Cidenas) has been attributed the invention (5th or 4th century BC) of a system "B" for predicting the position of the moon, taking account that the moon continually changes its speed along its path relative to the background of fixed stars.

Machatas

Machatas of Europos an upper Macedonian proxenos of Delphians late 4th century BC

Magh

Magi, a term, used since at least the 4th century BC, to denote followers of Zoroaster, or rather, followers of what the Hellenistic world associated Zoroaster with, which was – in the main – the ability to read the stars, and manipulate the fate that the stars foretold

Messenian Wars

Messenian Wars refers to the wars between Messenia and Sparta in the 8th and 7th centuries BC as well as the 4th century BC.

Philon

Philon, Athenian architect of the 4th century BC, is known as the planner of two important works: the portico of twelve Doric columns to the great Hall of the Mysteries at Eleusis (work commissioned by Demetrius Phalereus about 318 BC) and, under the administration of Lycurgus, an arsenal at Athens.

Samnis

An inhabitant of Samnium, a region of southern Italy conquered by Rome in the 4th century BC

Senigallia

Senigallia, spread out along the coast at the mouth of the river Misa, was founded in the 4th century BC by the Gallic tribe of the Senones and became the first Roman colony on the Adriatic shore.

Staatliche Antikensammlungen

An outstanding example for antique jewellery is the gold Funerary Garland from Armento (4th century BC).

The Beauty of Durrës

The mosaic is realized in the second half of 4th century BC in Durrës (then Epidamnos).

Tibetan art

As Mahayana Buddhism emerged as a separate school in the 4th century BC it emphasized the role of bodhisattvas, compassionate beings who forego their personal escape to Nirvana in order to assist others.

Timocrates

Timocrates of Rhodes, (4th century BC) a Rhodian Greek opposed to Sparta

Turduli

According to Pytheas in the 4th century BC as reported by Strabo in the 1st century AD they occupied the area that was Tartessos which was the Baetis River valley (Guadalquivir River Andalusia Spain).

Valenzano, Italy

Historically, the area was inhabited in prehistoric and early historic times (up to 4th century BC) by the Peucetii, of Illyrian origins, as testified by funerary findings.

Vergina

It was built in the 4th century BC and the archaeologists believe that the tomb belonged to Antigonus II Gonatas.

Vietnamese art

The highly developed Dong Son culture that flourished in North Vietnam (from about 1000 BC to the 4th century BC) was the civilization responsible for the world-famous Dong Son drums, a product of their advanced bronze-casting skills.