The Lantern

Chronicle · Pages 188-33225

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7 7 1 318 20 8 13 14 305

Of the Macedonians, Cassander, for 19 years. 119th Olympiad

21 c Seleucus founded the cities of Antioch, Laodicia, Seleucia, Apamia, Edessa, Beroea, and Pella, of which he constructed Antioch in the 12th year of his kingship. 9 14 15 304

1700 8 1 2 317

116th Olympiad 22 10 15 16 303

9 c The philosophers Menedemus and Speusippus are considered notable. 2 3 316

10 3 4 315 23 11 16 17 302

11 4 5 314 24 12 17 18 301

12 5 6 313 d Seleucus occupied Babylon.

117th Olympiad 120th Olympiad

In Asia, Demetrius, also called Poliorcetes, for 17 years

d The Hebrew history of the Maccabees reckons the kingship of the Greeks from this year. But these books are not accepted as part of divine Scripture. In Syria and Babylon and the upper regions reigned Seleucus Nicator, for 32 years. e The high priest of the Jews , Simon the son of Onias, is considered important, to whom 'the Just' was the sobriquet because of his religious reverence towards God and his clemency towards his fellow-citizens.

25 13 18 1 302

26 14 19 2 303

Of the Macedonians, the sons of Cassander, Antigonus and Alexander, for 4 years.

13 e The Romans defeat the Marsi, Umbri, and Peligni. 1 6 7 312

27 15 1 3 302

From this point the Edessenes calculate their dates. 14 f The Romans plant colonies. 2 7 8 311 1720 28 16 2 4 301

g Lysimachia founded in Thrace. 121st Olympiad

15 h Ptolemy invaded Cyprus. 3 8 9 310 29 f Demetrius, king of Asia, 17 3 5 300

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