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    B.C.E. Goddess Athena Archeology Literature History
    Ptolemy I
     323-283
    -Hellenistic Temple of Athena at Troy 323
    -Doric Temple of Athena Lindia at Lindus ca. 300

    -Foundation of the Alexandrian library ca.295
    -Zeno of Citium at the stoa
     322-264 
    -Euclid's Elements
     ca.300
    -Foundation of Alexandria 331
    Ptolemy II
     283-246
    Temple of Athena at Pergamon
     263 ?
      -Greek poets Callimachus and Theocritus 
     ca. 270
    -Philetaeros 
     283-263 
    -Sack of Athens by the Heruli 267 
    -First Punic War 264-241 
    -Eumenes I 
     263-241
    Ptolemy III 
     246-221
     -Sanctuary of Athena Cynthia at Delos ca. 230
     -Sanctuary of Athena Camiras at Camirus ca. 226 
      -Aristarchus of Samos and Apollonius of Rhodes ca.250  
    Ptolemy IV 
     221-203
          -Second Punic War 218-201
    Ptolemy V 
     203-181
      -Altar of Zeus at Pergamon 
     ca.180
      -Autonomy of the Greek cities proclamed by Flaminus 196
    Ptolemy VI 
     181-145
    -Cult statue of Athena at Priene ca. 158 -156 -Foundation of  the Temple of Zeus Olympian at Athens 174 
    -Pergamon library 
     ca. 160 
    -Prien's theater c.150
    -Expel of the philosophers from Rome 155 
    -Polybius 
     ca.155 
    -Posidonius 
     ca. 151-135
    -Destruction of the Macedonian monarchy by the Romans 
     167 
    -Greece becomes a Roman province 146
    Ptolemies VII-X 
     145-80
          -Carthage is sacked in 146 
    -Corinth is sacked in 146
    Ptolemy XI
     80-51
      -Venus from Milo ca. 100  -Religious renaissance 
     ca. 100
    -Delos is sacked in 88
    Cleopatra VII
     51-30
        -Laoconte 
     ca. 50
    -The Seleucid Kingdom becomes a Roman province 30

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