Message #168027

[Helios]

400 B.C. - Iberian Scripts - "The Iberian family of scripts is consisted of two 'styles', called Northeast and South. Structurally they are more or less the same, and the major difference between them is (a) geographical location, and (b) shape of the characters."

399 B.C. - 29th Egyptian Dynasty - "A traditional date for the 29th Egyptian Dynasty �[399 B.C.- 380 B.C.]."

399 B.C. - Fatality / Socrates - "Trial and execution of the Greek philosopher Socrates."

392 B.C. - Temple of Juno / Rome - "The Kalends of each month were sacred to Juno so it is appropriate that a temple to her would be dedicated on Kalends of September in 392 B.C.. This particular temple [on the Aventine hill] was vowed by the dictator Marcus Furius Camillus, who led Rome in war against the major Etruscan city of Veii in 396 B.C. Juno Regina was the tutelary goddess of Veii and Camillus made use of the Roman evocatio ritual to 'invite' her to abandon Veii in return for a nice temple and rites at Rome."

390 B.C. - Celtic Invasions / Rome - �"A European people [Celts] invade the Greco-Roman world in the 4th century B.C. In 390 B.C. Rome was sacked and fell to the Gauls."

381 B.C. - Configuration - Uranus-Pluto [Virgo/Pisces] opposition [381-379 B.C.]. Uranus-Pluto conjunctions and oppositions might bring sudden and radical changes, like a cathartic diarrhoea, yet their full integration takes ages." �

380 B.C. - 30th Egyptian Dynasty - "A traditional date for the 30th Egyptian Dynasty �[380 B.C.- 343 B.C.]. The 30th dynasties contains the last of the Egyptian-born Pharaohs."

384 B.C. - Birth / Aristotle �- "Aristotle [384 B.C.-322 B.C.], a pupil of Plato, had tutored the young Alexander, and was one of the greatest ancient philosophers. He produced a virtual encyclopedia covering all the knowledge of the times."


375 B.C. - Juno Lucina - "Juno Lucina was an aspect of the goddess Juno associated with light and childbirth. Her name lucina probably comes from the Latin lucus [grove]. Livy records that the grove on the Esquiline Hill in which a temple was dedicated to her in 375 B.C., is the origin of her name. By the second century B.C., Juno Lucina was associated with childbirth because the name lucina was thought to have come from the Latin word lux [light]. When a child was born it was said to have been "brought to light." Women who worshiped Juno Lucina had to untie knots and unbraid their hair lest lest these entanglements symbolically block delivery. The Matronalia on March 1 honored Juno Lucina."

360 B.C. - Nectanebo Rules Egypt - "Last native Egyptian pharaoh to reign [360 B.C.-343 B.C.] in a line stretching back to Narmer 25 centuries earlier."

358 B.C. - Artaxerxes III Rules Persia - "Artaxerxes III rules [358 B.C.-336 B.C.] in Persia."

356 B.C. - Birth / Alexander - "Philip's wife Olympias gives birth to a son named Alexander."

356 B.C. - Burned / Temple of Artemis - "Reportedly, the temple of Artemis [one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World] was burned by a man named Herostratus."

350 B.C. - Nazca Lines - "Experts have pronounced upon the antiquity of Nazca, basing their opinions on fragments of pottery found embedded �in the lines and on radio-carbon results from various organic remains unearthed here. The dates conjectured range between 350 B.C. and 600 A.D. Realistically, they tell us nothing about the age of the lines themselves, which are inherently as undatable as the stones cleared to make them."

338 B.C. - Phillip II / Greece - "Battle of Chaeronea: Phillip II of Macedon gains control of Greece." [Compact History Of The World, Geoffrey Parker, p. 32]

336 B.C. - Assassinated / Phillip of Macedon - "After subduing the Greek city-states, Philip [382 B.C.-336 B.C.] of Macedon, who believed himself to be a descendant of the Greek people was assassinated. He was succeeded by his son Alexander [The Great]."

335 �B.C. - Egyptian Victory / Alexander the Great - "Alexander the Great destroys Thebes."

333 B.C. - Persion Victory / Alexander the Great - "Alexander defeats the Persian Emperor Darius."

332 �B.C. - Levant Victory / Alexander the Great �- "Alexander the Great conquers Tyre and Jerusalem."

330 B.C. �- Babylonian Victory / Alexander the Great - "Alexander the Great occupies Babylon."

327 B.C. - �Indian Victory / Alexander the Great - "Alexander the Great invades India."

323 B.C. - Configuration - "Uranus-Pluto [Taurus] conjunction." �

323 �B.C. - Fatality / Alexander the Great - "Alexander the Great dies in Babylon. His empire is divided among his generals; one of them, Seleucus I."

323 B.C. - Greek Empire Divided - "Alexander's death in 323 BC �and the ensuing struggles between his leading generals created three major powers: Macedon, Egypt, and the Seleucid kingdom of western Asia." [Compact History Of The World, Geoffrey Parker, p. 32]

323 B.C. - Maurya Dynasty / India - "Chandragupta Maurya founds the Maurya dynasty, the first Indian empire. By 184, this dynasty will conquer most of India."

323 B.C. - Euclid / Greece - "Euclid's work on geometry."

322 B.C - Greek Judah - "Judah is conquered by the Greek Empire. Consequently, some Jews adopt Greek customs and religion."

321 B.C. - Configuration - "Uranus-Neptune [Gemini/Sagittarius] opposition [321-317 B.C.]." �

320 B.C. - Lunar Eclipse - "September 20th"

312 B.C. - Seleucus I / Babylon - "The year that Seleucus I established himself in Babylon."

304 B.C. - Chandragupta / India - "Chandragupta trades 500 war elephants to Seleucus in exchange for the Indus region and regions immediately to the west."

300 B.C. - Temple of the Sun / Mexico - "According to popular history, the Temple of the Sun was built at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Invention of Mayan calendar in Yucatan - more exact than older calendars."

300 B.C. - Yayoi Period / Japan �- "Japanese Yayoi Period 300 B.C.- 300 A.D."

300 B.C.

300 B.C. - Ksav Ashuris - "Reportedly, Ksav Ashuris [ktab asvryt], the script in which all sacred scrolls are written, was not introduced to the Jewish experience until the time of Ezra, approximately twenty-three hundred years ago. Ksav Ashuris, apparently, was the script of ancient Ashur, Assyria, one of the countries of the Persian Empire, under which the Jews were exiled in Ezra's time. Until then, the script used by Jews was the ancient Hebrew script known as Ksav Ivri [ktb abry]. If it is true then that the Ten Commandements were inscribed in a script other than Ksav Ashuris, then it would mean that the script now associated with the Torah is of foriegn origin and that Israel discardedthe script in which God originally conveyed His word to them."

300 B.C. - Dead Sea Scrolls - "Within a fairly short time after their discovery, historical, paleographic, and linguistic evidence, as well as carbon-14 dating, established that the [Dead Sea] scrolls and the Qumran ruin dated from the third century B.C. to 68 A.D. Coming from the late Second Temple Period, a time when Jesus of Nazareth lived, they are older than any other surviving Biblical manuscripts by almost one thousand years."

287 B.C. - Archimedes �/ Greece - �"Archimedes, Greek mathematician [287-212 B.C.]."

285 B.C. - Ptolemy II / Egypt - "Ptolemy II [308 -246 B.C.] takes the throne in Egypt."

273 B.C. - Ashoka / India - "Ashoka [273-232 B.C.], grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, rules in India."

270 B.C. - Septuagint - "In Judea, Hebrew was no longer the language of everyday life. It had been supplanted by Aramaic, which, however, was close enough to Hebrew so that one language could be easily learned by those who spoke the other. In Alexandria, however, the resident Jews learned Greek and, eventually, the Bible could not be understood by them. About 270 B.C., then, �the project of translating the Bible into Greek began. Since 70 scholars were in charge of the project, the translation was called the Septuagint, from a Latin word for seventy." [Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Chronology Of The World, p. 73]�

*Trivia:�"The title Genesis was introduced by Greek Bible translators in the 3rd century BC, and relates to 'origin' or 'beginning'. The Hebrew opening for the book was Bereshit: 'At the beginning.' "

264 B.C. - Configuration - Uranus-Pluto [Aquarius/Leo] opposition [264-261 B.C.]." �

264 B.C. - First Punic War - "First Punic war [264-241 B.C.]: Rome defeats the Carthaginians and begins its domination of the Mediterranean."

264 B.C. - Gladiators Games / Rome - "First Roman gladiator games."

250 B.C. - Ptolemaic Egypt - "By 250 B.C., Ptolemaic Egypt was the most prosperous and the strongest nation in the world." [Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Chronology Of The World, p. 73]�

*Trivia: "The Ptolemies founded a library which eventually became the largest one the world was to see prior to the invention of printing. By this time the Bible could be read by anyone speaking Greek. An Egyptian priest, Manetho, wrote a history of Egypt and divided its rulers into dynasties, each dynasty representing a family whose members ruled over Egypt for a period of time."

250 B.C. - Buddhist Canon - "A general council of Buddhist monks is held in Patna, where the canon of Buddhist scriptures is selected."

250 B.C. - Sanhedrin / Jerusalem - "According to Jewish tradition, Ezra founded the 'Great Assembly' of teachers who would preserve the oral traditions. Towards the middle of the third century B.C. the Great Assembly ceased and another organization the 'Sanhedrin' took charge of the affairs of the community."

248 B.C. - Arsaces I / Parthian Empire - "After 250 B.C., it seemed that the Seleucid Empire was breaking up. In 248 B.C., the eastern portions of the Seleucid Empire broke away. In what is now Iran, Arsaces I (who may have been of Scythian origin) set up the Parthian Empire, so-called because it was centered on the Persian province of Parthia." [Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Chronology Of The World, p. 76]�

241 B.C. - Roman Victory / Carthage - "Rome finally defeated Carthage in the First Punic War and, in 241 B.C., Carthage accepted a losing peace.... Rome took over Sicily - all except for Syracuse which remained independant under Hiero II." [Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Chronology Of The World, p. 76]�