Year 242 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Catulus and Albinus (or, less frequently...

203 BC) Prusias I Cholus (the Lame), king of Bithynia (approximate date) Seleucus III Ceraunus, king of the Seleucid Kingdom (d. 223 BC) 242 BC Antiochus...

Gaius Lutatius Catulus (fl. 242–241 BC) was a Roman statesman and naval commander in the First Punic War. He was born a member of the plebeian gens Lutatius...

Year 243 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Fundulus and Galus (or, less frequently...

Year 244 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atticus and Blaesus (or, less frequently...

consecutive years (Gaius Fundanius Fundulus in 243 BC and Gaius Lutatius Catulus in 242 BC). In 63 BC, Cicero became the first novus homo to be consul in...

Year 240 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Centho and Tuditanus (or, less frequently...

The year 245 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Buteo and Bulbus (or, less frequently...

concerns the period 819 BC – 810 BC. 817 BC—Pedubastis I declares himself king of Egypt, founding the Twenty-third Dynasty. 814 BC—Carthage is founded by...

II 243 - 242 BC Aegialeas 242 - 241 BC (?) Aratus of Sicyon III 241 - 240 BC Aratus of Sicyon IV 239 - 238 BC Aratus of Sicyon V 237 - 236 BC Dioedas 236...

Lion-like") was the 28th Agiad King of Sparta from 254 to 242 BC and from 241 to 235 BC. Leonidas was the son of Cleonymus and grandson of King Cleomenes...

year 512 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 242 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 512 BC for this...

succession of Rome. Millennia: 1st BC · 1st–2nd Centuries: 7th BC · 6th BC · 5th BC · 4th BC · 3rd BC · 2nd BC · 1st BC · 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th ·...

representing Seleucid King Antiochus III who was born near Susa around 242 BC. Glazed clay vase: Vase with palmtrees, 8th–9th centuries Winged sphinx...

Year 241 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atticus and Cerco (or, less frequently...

Year 239 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Turrinus and Falto (or, less frequently...

The Decree of Philippi 242 BC was a message from the city of Philippi to the city of Cos in response to an envoy sent by the latter. These messengers requested...

living in new territories, though the last time this had been done was in 242 BC. Plans were made to create possibly two or eight new tribes, pursuant to...

kingdom of the Thesprotians. They formed their own government around 370 BC and were part of the League of Epirus. The most famous Molossian ruler was...

politician of Ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 3rd century BC. He was elected consul in 242 BC with Gaius Lutatius Catulus, who defeated the Carthaginians...

evidence for the existence of any kings before the middle of the sixth century BC or so. Spartan kings received a recurring posthumous hero cult like that of...

(264 to 241 BC) and won, making Sicily–with the exception of Syracuse–the first Roman province outside of the Italian Peninsula by 242 BC. In the Second...

Seleucus II Callinicus and Laodice II, aunt of Seleucus, and was born around 242 BC near Susa in Persia. He may have initially borne a non-dynastic name (starting...

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...

sea and built a new navy, thanks to a forced borrowing from the rich. In 242 BC, 200 quinqueremes under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus blockaded Drepana...

first of the gens to obtain the consulship was Gaius Lutatius Catulus in 242 BC, the final year of the First Punic War. Orosius mentions their burial place...

to the Egyptians, Ptolemies and Syrians. After they conquered Sicily in 242 BC, the Romans tried to capture some specimens that had been left behind in...

Albinus (consul 242 BC), Roman senator Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 151 BC), Roman senator Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 99 BC), Roman senator Aulus...

raiding the coasts of Roman Italy until 243 BC. The Romans did not mount a major naval effort until 242 BC. The string of Roman naval victories, such as...

(consul 242 BC), c. 244 BC. Marcus Aemilius Regillus, d. 204 BC. Tiberius Veturius Philo, his successor in 204 BC. Publius Quinctilius Varus, d. 169 BC. Lucius...