317 BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC – 4th century BC – 3rd century BC
Decades:	340s BC  330s BC  320s BC  – 310s BC –  300s BC  290s BC  280s BC
Years:	320 BC 319 BC 318 BC – 317 BC – 316 BC 315 BC 314 BC

317 BC in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	317 BC
Ab urbe condita	437
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 7
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 7
Ancient Greek era	115th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4434
Bengali calendar	−909
Berber calendar	634
Buddhist calendar	228
Burmese calendar	−954
Byzantine calendar	5192–5193
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2380 or 2320     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2381 or 2321
Coptic calendar	−600 – −599
Discordian calendar	850
Ethiopian calendar	−324 – −323
Hebrew calendar	3444–3445
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−260 – −259
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2785–2786
Holocene calendar	9684
Iranian calendar	938 BP – 937 BP
Islamic calendar	967 BH – 966 BH
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2017
Minguo calendar	2228 before ROC 民前2228年
Thai solar calendar	226–227

Year 317 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Brutus and Barbula (or, less frequently, year 437 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 317 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Macedonian Empire

• Seleucus joins Antigonus against Eumenes and recaptures Babylon.
• Battle of Paraitacene: The first battle of Western armies each with an elephant corps who fights for control over Alexander's empire.
• Armenia's Persian satrap, Ardvates, frees his country from Macedonian control.
• After capturing Athens from Macedonia's regent Polyperchon, Cassander entrusts the government of Athens to the Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher, Demetrius Phalereus.
• Polyperchon flees to Epirus, where he joins Alexander the Great's mother Olympias, Alexander's widow Roxana, and Alexander's infant son Alexander IV. He forms an alliance with Olympias, who is acting as regent for Alexander IV, and King Aeacides of Epirus.
• While Cassander is occupied in the Peloponnesus, Olympias leads an army into Macedonia. She is initially successful, defeating the army of King Philip III Arrhidaeus and captures King Philip and his wife, Eurydice, as well as Cassander's brother, Nicanor, and has them murdered.
• Ptolemy marries Berenice, lady-in-waiting to Eurydice, wife of Ptolemy.

Sicily

• Acestorides, a native of Corinth, is made supreme commander by the citizens of Syracuse.
• After twice being banished for attempting to overthrow the oligarchical party, Agathocles returns with an army and banishes or murders about 10,000 citizens (including the oligarchs), and sets himself up as tyrant of Syracuse. Acestorides is banished from the city.

By topic

Art

• Private funeral monuments are banned in Athenian cemeteries.

Literature

• Menander wins the first prize at the Lenaian festival with his play Dyskolos (The Grouch).

Births

Deaths

• King Philip III of Macedon (b. c. 359 BC)
• Queen Eurydice III of Macedon

References