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Year 400 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Esquilinus, Capitolinus, Vulso, Medullinus, Saccus and Vulscus (or, less frequently, year 354 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 400 BC for this year has been used in Europe since the early medieval period, when the Anno ...
400 BC (2 C, 1 P) B. 400s BC births (2 C, 8 P) C. 400s BC conflicts (17 P) D. 400s BC deaths (10 C, 10 P) Pages in category "400s BC" This category contains only the ...
Agathon (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə θ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἀγάθων; c. 448 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato 's Symposium , which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416. [ 1 ]
Another contributing factor may have been domestic politics: while little is known of Carthage's government and leadership prior to the third century BC, the reign of Mago I (c. 550–530), and the political dominance of the Magonid family in subsequent decades, precipitated Carthage's rise as a dominant power.
The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era , epoch , or historical period . This century marked the height of Classical Greek civilization in all of its aspects.
By 400 BC the state showed first signs of fatigue, although Cotys I initiated a brief renaissance that lasted until his murder in 360 BC. Around 340 BC, the Odrysian kingdom lost independence to Macedon and became incorporated into the empire, but it regained independence following Alexander the Great 's death.
The two notation systems are numerically equivalent: "2025 CE" and "AD 2025" each describe the current year; "400 BCE" and "400 BC" are the same year. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The expression can be traced back to 1615, when it first appears in a book by Johannes Kepler as the Latin : annus aerae nostrae vulgaris ( year of our common era ), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and ...
400 bc Aspasia of Miletus , widow of Pericles of Athens (approximate date) (b. c. 470 BC ) Siddhārtha Gautama (also known as Buddha ), founder of Buddhism (approximate date)