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The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical Era , epoch , or historical period . In the Mediterranean Basin , the first few decades of this century were characterized by a balance of power between the Greek Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, and the great mercantile ...
He belonged to the Empiric school, [1] and lived after Serapion of Alexandria, and before Heraclides of Tarentum, and therefore probably in the 3rd or 2nd century BC. [2] Galen mentions him as one of the earliest commentators on the whole of the Hippocratic Corpus , [ 3 ] and he also wrote an alphabetical glossary on the difficult words ...
In 280 BC a great army, comprising about 85,000 warriors, [1] coming from Pannonia and split in three divisions, marched south [2] in a 'great expedition' [3] to the Greek mainland against Macedonia and then further south to central Greece as far south as Delphi during a failed and short-lived campaign against the Greek city-states.
This is a list of state leaders in the 3rd century BC (300–201 BC). Africa: North. Cyrene (complete list) ...
Philo of Byzantium [a] (Ancient Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος, Phílōn ho Byzántios, c. 280 BC – c. 220 BC), also known as Philo Mechanicus (Latin for "Philo the Engineer"), was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC.
3rd BC; 2nd BC; 1st BC; 1st; 2nd; 3rd ... Pages in category "3rd century BC" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect ...
The son of Aglaos, Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in Cyrene.Now part of modern-day Libya, Cyrene had been founded by Greeks centuries earlier and became the capital of Pentapolis (North Africa), a country of five cities: Cyrene, Arsinoe, Berenice, Ptolemias, and Apollonia.
3rd BC; 2nd BC; 1st BC; 1st; 2nd; 3rd ... Pages in category "3rd-century BC historians" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may ...