298_BC

298 BC

298 BC

Calendar year

Year 298 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Barbatus and Centumalus (or, less frequently, year 456 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 298 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.

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Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). The Roman Republic in 298 BC is marked with dark and light red and pink.

Events

By place

Roman Republic

  • The consuls Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus and Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus campaign against the Etruscans. Scipio fights a costly indecisive battle near Volaterrae.
  • The Lucanians seek Roman aid against the invasion of the Samnites. In agreeing to take the Lucanians under their protection, the Romans commit to war against the Samnites.
  • Fulvius invades central Samnium and defeats a Samnite army near Bovianum. He then captures Aufidena and possibly also Bovianum.
  • Scipio captures Taurasia and Cisauna in eastern and south-eastern Samnium and subdues anti-Roman elements in Lucania. Fulvius possibly defeats a Lucanian force as well.[1][2][3][4]

Sicily

Egypt

  • Ptolemy gives his stepdaughter Theoxena in marriage to Agathocles, the tyrant of Syracuse (in south-eastern Sicily).
  • Ptolemy finally brings the rebellious region of Cyrene under his control. He places the region under the rule of his stepson Magas.

India

China

Births

Deaths

References

  1. [1]
    Livius, Titus. Ab Urbe Condita 10.11-12.
  2. [2]
    of Halicarnassus, Dionysius. Roman Antiquities 16.11-14.
  3. [3]
    Frontinus, Sextus Julius. Stratagemata 1.6.1-2, 1.11.2.
  4. [4]
    Oakley, S. P. Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X, 4 : Book X.
  5. [5]
    Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Basic Annals of Qin.
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