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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 ...
It also displays an in-depth understanding of the political language of the Hellenic world in the 3rd century BCE. This suggests the presence of a highly cultured Greek presence in Kandahar at that time. [6] Two other inscriptions in Greek are known at Kandahar. One is a dedication by a Greek man who names himself "son of Aristonax" (3rd ...
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.
Dandamis (4th Century BCE) Diodorus Cronus, (3rd century BC) Diogenes Apolloniates, (c. 460 BC) Diogenes the Cynic of Sinope, (412-323 BC) Dong Zhongshu (or ...
The 3rd century BCE is supported for the translation of the Pentateuch by a number of factors, including its Greek being representative of early Koine Greek, citations beginning as early as the 2nd century BCE, and early manuscripts datable to the 2nd century BCE. [29] After the Torah, other books were translated over the next two to three ...
11 June: James Murray, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, moves to a house on the Banbury Road to work full-time on the project. 2 December: Osney Bridge collapses with one fatality. [189] 1886 13 February: Second New Theatre in George Street opens with an Oxford University Dramatic Society performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. [187]
Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 345 BCE – c. 250 BCE), Greek history; Manetho (3rd century BCE), Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) living in the Ptolemaic era; Quintus Fabius Pictor (born c. 254 BCE), Roman history; Artapanus of Alexandria (late 3rd – early 2nd centuries BCE), Jewish historian of ...
Arsamosata was founded in the 3rd century BCE and survived in a contracted state until perhaps the early 13th century CE. [14] Sophene was autonomous for the majority of the 2nd century BC. Change first occurred with the arrival of the Parthian Empire, who under the King of Kings Mithridates II (r.