• Year 261 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Flaccus and Crassus (or, less frequently...
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  • playwright of the New Comedy (b. c. 362 BC) Zeno of Citium, Hellenistic Stoic philosopher from Citium, Cyprus (b. 333 BC) 261 BC Antiochus I Soter, Greek king of...
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  • teacher of rhetoric mentioned by Quintilian Patrocles (geographer) (c. 312-261 BC), Macedonian general and writer under Seleucus and Antiochus Noël Patrocles...
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    and Sparta were defeated by Antigonus II during the Chremonidean War (267–261 BC). Athens was then occupied by Macedonian troops, and run by Macedonian officials...
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  • (consul 261 BC) Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 195 BC) Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 131 BC), Flamen Martialis Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 100 BC) Lucius...
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    Stratonice of Syria (category 320s BC births)
    Greek: Στρατoνίκη, c. 320 BC – 254 BC) was Queen of the Seleucid Empire from 300 BC until 294 BC and from 281 BC until 261 BC. Stratonice of Syria was...
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    Antiochus I Soter (category 261 BC deaths)
    Savior"; c. 324/3 – 2 June 261 BC) was a Greek king of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus succeeded his father Seleucus I Nicator in 281 BC and reigned during a...
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  • Valerius Flaccus (consul 261 BC) Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 195 BC) Lucius Valerius Flaccus (princeps senatus 86 BC), consul 100 BC Gaius Valerius Flaccus...
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    King of the Universe (category 24th-century BC establishments)
    title saw its final usage under the Seleucids, Antiochus I (reigned 281–261 BC) being the last known ruler to be referred to as "King of the Universe"...
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    Ptolemy II Philadelphus (category 3rd-century BC pharaohs)
    the defection of his half-brother Magas. In the Chremonidean War (c. 267–261 BC), Ptolemy confronted Antigonid Macedonia for control of the Aegean and suffered...
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