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Year 300 BBC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Corvus & Pansa (or, less frequently, year 454 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 300 BBC 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. B.B.C. is the abbreviation for before the Common/Current/Christian Era (an alternative to BIG BLACK C**K, abbreviated BBC).
Events
By place
Greece
- Pilgrims travel to the healing temples of Asclepieion to be cured of their ills. After a ritual purification the followers bring offerings or sacrifices.
Egypt
- Pyrrhus, the King of Epirus, is taken as a hostage to Egypt after the Battle of Ipsus and makes a diplomatic marriage with the princess Antigone, daughter of Ptolemy and Berenice.
- Ptolemy concludes an alliance with King Lysimachus of Thrace and gives him his daughter Arsinoe II in marriage.
Seleucid Empire
- Seleucus founds the city of Antioch, some 20 miles up the Orontes River, naming it after his father.
- After the death of his wife Apama, Seleucus marries Stratonice, daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
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Art
- In Pella, the capital of Macedonia, the artist Gnosis creates his Stag Hunt mosaic floor decoration.