370 BC
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Year 370 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
Events
[change | change source]By place
[change | change source]Greece
[change | change source]- The Spartans under King Agesilaus II invade Arcadia. After asking the Athenians for help, Arcadia turns to the Thebans. Epaminondas of Thebes comes with an army, finds the Spartan have left and follows them.
- With the support of Thebes, the Arcadian capital city of Megalopolis is completed.
- The tagus of Thessaly, Jason of Pherae, dies.
By topic
[change | change source]Art
[change | change source]- The sculptor Praxiteles begins his active career in Athens (approximate date).
Mathematics
[change | change source]- Eudoxus of Cnidus develops the method of exhaustion for mathematically determining the area under a curve.
Births
[change | change source]- Marcus Valerius Corvus, Roman hero
- Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (d. c. 285 BC)
Deaths
[change | change source]- Agesipolis II, Agiad king of Sparta
- Democritus of Abdera, Greek philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 460 BC)
- Hippocrates of Cos, Greek physician (b. c. 460 BC)
- Jason of Pherae, ruler of Thessaly