370 BC

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Year of the Metal Pig辛亥( at the beginning of the year metal dog庚戌)

Events

Politics and World Affairs

Western Mediterranean

  • Aulus Manlius Capitolinus, Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus, Gaius Valerius Potitus Volusus, Lucius Furius Medullinus, Servius Cornelius Publius Valerius Maluginensis and Potitus Poplicola be Roman military tribunes.
  • 370: Roman Republic and Latins close the foedus Cassianum, an alliance of convenience, to defend himself together, especially against the Celts, but also against the Etruscans and Hernici.

Eastern Mediterranean

  • Alexander II succeeds his father Amyntas III. to the throne of Macedon.
  • The Theban army of Epaminondas runs through the Peloponnese and in December the first foreign army that invades Laconia. Only the king Agesilaus II capital held by Sparta is not conquered.
  • Cleomenes II is the new king of the Spartan Agiaden Dynasty.
  • The Thebans cause the re-establishment of Mantinea, the Spartans had destroyed fifteen years earlier, when another anti- Spartan bulwark in Arcadia next to Megalopolis.

Imperial China

  • Wei Hui is new Margrave of the Wei Empire.

Science and Technology

  • The mathematician Eudoxus of Cnidus used the method of exhaustion in the area calculation.
  • Speusippos written about 370 BC the first systematic encyclopedia of the animal and plant kingdom, the Homoia. Only a few fragments have been preserved until today.

Culture and Society

  • Plato wrote about 370 BC, the Politeia, which is considered his most important work. The central theme is the question: What is justice?
  • The Athenian politician and writer Xenophon written about 370 BC, his most famous work Anabasis.
  • In Tegea, the reconstruction of the 394 BC burned down the Temple of Athena begins. The temple is one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece. The project is led by the sculptor Scopas.
  • Roman magistrate Sp Cassius Vecellinus is the named after him cassischen contract ( foedus cassianum ) with Latinerstädten.

Born

  • Hui Shi, Chinese philosopher from the State of Song ( † 310 BC)
  • 370 BC: Alexander I, King of Epirus († 331 BC)
  • 370 BC: Aristoxenus, Greek philosopher and music theorist († 300 BC )
  • 370 BC: Callisthenes of Olynthus, Macedonian historian ( † about 327 BC)
  • 370 BC: Marcus Valerius Corvus, Roman folk hero († 270 BC)

Died

  • Alcetes I., King of the Molosser, Hegemon of Epirus (c. 410 BC)
  • Amyntas III. , King of Macedonia
  • Pasion, Greek banker
  • Jason of Pherae, tyrant
  • Polydorus of Pherae, tyrant
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