0431 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Thucydides, a contemporary historian, believed that the war broke out because of Spartan fear of the rising power of Athens, whose empire and capital increasingly isolated less imaginative and less adventurous rivals.[…]
0400 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Plato is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the middle[…]
0399 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Enter story info here 113001
0384 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, making contributions to logic, metaphysics, mathematics, physics, biology, botany, ethics, politics, agriculture, medicine, dance and theatre. He was a student of Plato who[…]
0331 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Alexander defeats Darius III at Gaugamela, Darius III has an army of 300,000 infantry; 40,000 cavalry; 250 chariots; and 50 elephants — beaten by Alex and 60,000 115000
0288 BC-12-01 00:00:00 EnLaunched in 288 BC by Ptolemy I (Soter) under the guidance of Demetrius of Phaleron, the temple to the muses, or Mouseion (in greek), or museum (in latin) was part academy, part[…]
0287 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Born 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily. Generally regarded as the greatest mathematician and scientist of antiquity and one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time 118000
0264 BC-12-01 00:00:00 First war 264 – 240 Fought over control of Sicily Second War – 3 wars, 2nd war Hannibal Second Punic War saw Hannibal and his troops–including as many as 90,000 infantry, 12,000[…]
0256 BC-12-01 00:00:00 In 256, the Romans sent a fleet of no less than 330 ships from Sicily to Africa, where the army aboard was supposed to strike at the Carthaginian homeland.The fight at Ecnomus[…]
0255 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Enlisting spartan help, Carthage redeploys their elephants from the middle to the front of their lines and defeat Rome in Africa.Carthage was able to field an army of 12,000 infantry, 4,000 cavalry[…]
