Year 287 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Marcellus and Rutilus (or, less frequently...

patricians (aristocrats) of the ancient Roman Republic lasting from 500 BC to 287 BC in which the plebeians sought political equality with the patricians...

king of Sicily after 304 BC (b. 361 BC) Mencius (Mèng Zǐ or Meng Zhu), Chinese philosopher (approximate date) (b. c. 372 BC) 287 BC Phila, daughter of Antipater...

Council, began to gain power during this time. Two secessions in 449 BC and 287 BC brought about increased authority for the plebeian assembly and its...

Scullard state there were five between 494 BC and 287 BC. Beginning in 495 BC, and culminating in 494–493 BC, the plebeian class of Rome grew increasingly...

complete end in 287 BC, with the passage of the Hortensian law. This era was also marked with significant external developments. Up until 295 BC, the Samnites...

Republic, but its relevance waned after the Conflict of the Orders (494 BC to 287 BC). By the time of the late Republic and Empire, membership in the patriciate...

The siege of Athens lasted through 287 BC when the city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon. Athens revolted in that year against Demetrius'...

fields. Theophrastus (c. 371 – c. 287 BC). Peripatetic. Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360 – 270 BC). Skeptic. Epicurus (c. 341 – 270 BC). Materialist Atomist, hedonist...

Archimedes of Syracuse (/ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz/ AR-kim-EE-deez; c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and...