Year 401 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Potitus, Cossus, Camillus, Ambustus...
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The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. This century saw the establishment of Pataliputra as a capital of...
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behind thee. He was slain from behind in 395 BC by Neachorus, who had a serpent painted upon his shield. In 401 BC, Sparta was warned: Sure though thy feet...
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Cyrus the Younger (category 401 BC deaths)
Greek: Κῦρος Kyros; died 401 BC) was an Achaemenid prince and general. He ruled as satrap of Lydia and Ionia from 408 to 401 BC. Son of Darius II and Parysatis...
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present-day Turkey. Sometime after 401 BC, they expanded their authority into the northern Tigris valley. Between 165–95 BC, they established the independent...
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King An of Zhou (category 376 BC deaths)
father King Weilie of Zhou on the throne of China in 401 BC and reigned until his death in 376 BC. After he died, his son King Lie of Zhou ruled over China...
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of Peticus and Poplicola (or, less frequently, year 401 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 353 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval...
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Ancient Greek mercenaries (section 2nd millennium BC)
In 401 BC, many Greeks supported Cyrus the Younger in his campaign against Artaxerxes II and fought at the Battle of Cunaxa. The Ten Thousand (401–399)...
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middle of the 5th century BC Terituchmes, satrap in the second half of the 5th century BC Orontes I "the Bactrian", satrap 401–344 BC, matrilineal? descendant...
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Battle of Cunaxa (category 401 BC)
The Battle of Cunaxa was fought in the late summer of 401 BC between the Persian king Artaxerxes II and his brother Cyrus the Younger for control of the...
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Artaxerxes II (category 5th-century BC Kings of the Achaemenid Empire)
his bid for the throne. The forces of the brothers clashed at Cunaxa in 401 BC, which resulted in the defeat and death of Cyrus. Following this, Artaxerxes...
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Ctesias (category 4th-century BC historians)
who lived in the fifth century BC, was physician to the Achaemenid king, Artaxerxes II, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother...
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Cyrus (category Articles containing Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)-language text)
BC). Cyrus is also the name of Cyrus I of Anshan (c. 650 BC), King of Persia and the grandfather of Cyrus the Great; and Cyrus the Younger (died 401 BC)...
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before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC. In the timeline of the plays...
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Charidemus d. 333 BC 367–333 BC Athens Greek mercenary leader who served Athens, Thrace and Rhodes. Clearchus of Sparta 411–401 BC Spartan general and...
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403 BC Critias, leading member of the Athenian Thirty Tyrants oligarchy (b. 460 BC) 402 BC Zhou wei lie wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China 401 BC Agis...
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401 may refer to: 401 (number), the natural number following 400 and preceding 402 A year: 401 BC or AD 401 Ontario Highway 401, a highway that extends...
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Cyrus the Younger's failed march against the Persian Empire in the year 401 BC. The mountain was only a five-day march away from the friendly coastal city...
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Anabasis (Xenophon) (category 4th-century BC history books)
Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC. The seven books making up the Anabasis were composed c. 370 BC. Although as an Ancient Greek vocabulary...
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Sophocles (c. 495–406 BC): Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle: Antigone (c. 442 BC) Oedipus Rex (c. 429 BC) Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC, posthumous) Ajax (unknown...
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Xenophon's Anabasis. They inhabited the mountains north of the Tigris in 401 BC, living in well-provisioned villages. They were enemies to the king of Persia...
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Clearchus of Sparta (category 401 BC deaths)
Clearchus or Clearch (Ancient Greek: Κλέαρχος; 450 BC – 401 BC), also known as Clearchus the Lacedaemonian or Clearchus the son of Rhamphias, was a Spartan...
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6th century BC – State leaders in the 4th century BC – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 5th century BC (500–401 BC). Carthage...
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Year 400 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Republic, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Esquilinus, Capitolinus, Vulso...
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415 BC – Xenocles 409 BC – Sophocles (Philoctetes) 405 BC – Euripides (The Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, Alcmaeon in Corinth) 401 BC - Sophocles (Oedipus...
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zodiac was introduced between 409 and 398 BC, during Persian rule, and probably within a very few years of 401 BC. Unlike modern astrologers, who place the...
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Anabasis written in 370 BC by Xenophon. Part I describes the events leading up to and including the Battle of Cunaxa in 401 BC, in which Prince Cyrus the...
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Ariaeus (category 5th-century BC births)
Ariaeus (fl. 401 BC – 394 BC) was a Persian general who fought alongside Cyrus the Younger at the Battle of Cunaxa and later was involved in the assassination...
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was the shout of exultation given by the roaming 10,000 Greeks when, in 401 BC, they caught sight of the Black Sea from Mount Theches in Trebizond and...
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books concerned the earlier campaign "up-country" of Cyrus the Younger in 401 BC. The Anabasis is by far the fullest surviving account of Alexander's conquest...
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