This article concerns the period 349 BC – 340 BC. Sidon is besieged by Persian forces. After recovering from illness, Philip II of Macedon turns his attention...

The 4th century BCE started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical...

The 340s decade ran from January 1, 340, to December 31, 349. Constantinople, capital of Emperor Constantius II, becomes the largest city in the world...

Latins, who only made peace with Rome in 354 after a lengthy war. During the 340s, Roman-Latin relations seem to have worsened again. Livy records that, in...

further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 13,000 BC to AD 3000. 0s BC is not a true decade, as it contains only nine years. AD 0s is not...

in the ashes of a fire to make them rounder, although Plato (fl. 420s BC – 340s BC) described "balls which have leather coverings in twelve pieces". Among...

(/ˈpleɪtoʊ/ PLAY-toe; Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered...

millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy:...

The Third Sacred War (356–346 BC) was fought between the forces of the Delphic Amphictyonic League, principally represented by Thebes, and latterly by...

Thessalonike (Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη; 353/2 or 346/5 BC – 295 BC) was a Macedonian Greek princess, the daughter of King Philip II of Macedon by his Thessalian...