Year 170 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Mancinus and Serranus (or, less frequently...

This article concerns the period 179 BC – 170 BC. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus goes to Hispania as Roman governor to deal with uprisings there. The Pons...

Year 170 (CLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year...

Daniel, or the Prayer of Azariah (200-0 BC) Prayer of Manasseh (100-0 BC) 1 Maccabees (110 BC) 2 Maccabees (110-170 BC) Epistle of Barnabas 3 Maccabees 4 Maccabees...

was an imperial cult in ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC), promoted by the Ptolemaic dynasty. The core of the cult was the worship...

King (155–150 BC) Eucratides I, King (170–c.145 BC) Plato, co-King (c.166 BC) Eucratides II, King (145–140 BC) Heliocles I, King (c.145–130 BC) Indo-Greek...

Antiochus (Greek: Ἀντίοχος; c. 180 – 170 BC) was a Hellenistic monarch of the Seleucid Empire reigning between 175 and 170 BC. Antiochus' year of birth is not...

Tyre in July and August 170 BC preparing his forces, and reached the important strategic town of Pelusium in November 170 BC. Just as the Ptolemaic army...

Sempronia (170 BC – after 101 BC) was a Roman noblewoman living in the Middle and Late Roman Republic, who was most famous as the sister of the ill-fated...

Lucius Accius (/ˈæksiəs/; 170 – c. 86 BC), or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar. Accius was born in 170 BC at Pisaurum, a town founded...

550–530/20 BC. Coin of Lycia, c. 520–470/60 BC. Lycia coin, c. 520-470 BC. Struck with worn obverse die. Coin of Lesbos, Ionia, c. 510–80 BC. The Classical...

for men used since the Parthians, first recorded for Arsacid kings circa 170 BC. Variants of the name are also commonly found in other countries with historical...

made co-ruler with his siblings in the run-up to the Sixth Syrian War, in 170 BC. In the course of that war, Ptolemy VI was captured and Ptolemy VIII arguably...

with Euthydemus II, dating from 180 to 170 BC, and his younger brothers Pantaleon and Agathocles around 170 BC. As only China was able to produce cupro-nickel...

an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iran from the third century BC to the third century AD. It contained a varying number of subordinate semi-autonomous...

monarchs of Iran (Persia) from the establishment of the Medes around 678 BC until the deposition of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. Note: Ancient Persia...

281–266 BC Ariobarzanes 266 – c. 250 BC Mithridates II c. 250 – c. 220 BC Mithridates III c. 220 – c. 185 BC Pharnaces I c. 185 – c. 170 BC Mithridates...

Ἄτταλος Γ΄) Philometor Euergetes (c. 170 BC – 133 BC) was the last Attalid king of Pergamon, ruling from 138 BC to 133 BC. Attalus III was the son of king...

wide circulation from c. 510 to c. 38 BC. The transition from didrachms to tetradrachms occurred during c. 525–510 BC; the abandonment of the "heraldic"-type...

statesman and poet (d. 170 BC) Wen, Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty (d. 157 BC) Abdissares, king of Sophene (Armenian Kingdom) from 212 BC Euthydemus I, king...

century BC until the Persian Wars in about 480 BC. The Classical period then began, and lasted until the conquests of Alexander the Great in about 330 BC, which...

177 BC and then two of her associates, Eulaeus and Lenaeus, until 169 BC. From 170 BC, his sister-wife Cleopatra II and his younger brother Ptolemy VIII...

(living circa 211 BC/205 BC–170 BC) was the eldest son of Scipio Africanus and his wife Aemilia Paulla. He was chosen augur from 180 BC. Little information...

century BC Kingdom of Macedonia 210 BC-208 BC Kingdom of Dardania 208 BC-170 BC Kingdom of Macedonia 170 BC-148 BC Roman Republic 148 BC - 27 BC Roman Empire...

The Third Macedonian War (171–168 BC) was a war fought between the Roman Republic and King Perseus of Macedon. In 179 BC, King Philip V of Macedon died and...

Serranus was a consul in the year 170 BC, together with Aulus Hostilius Mancinus. Serranus first held office as praetor in 192 BC; during his year he was dispatched...

from a decree of the Roman Senate to the town of Thisbae in Boeotia in 170 BC, is rendered in a reconstructed pronunciation representing a hypothetical...

Epiphanes (c. 215 BC–November/December 164 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic King who ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. He was a son...

from Turkmenistan in the west to the Punjab in India in the east by about 170 BC. Graeco-Bactrian rule was eventually defeated by a combination of internecine...

Caecilius Metellus Balearicus (born c. 170 BC) was a Roman statesman and general who was elected consul for the year 123 BC. Quintus Caecilius Metellus was the...