Year 262 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Valerius and Otacilius (or, less frequently...

of Bithynia (approximate date) 263 BC Antigonus III Doson, king of Macedonia from 229 to 221 BC (d. 221 BC) 262 BC Apollonius of Perga (Pergaeus), Greek...

The Battle of Agrigentum (Sicily, 262 BC) was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between...

stalemate. Antiochus I Soter, Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire (or 262 BC) Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Lian Po. "Antiochus...

(/ˈziːnoʊ/; Koinē Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Κιτιεύς, Zēnōn ho Kitieus; c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Citium (Κίτιον, Kition), Cyprus. He...

himself by working as a water-carrier at night. After the death of Zeno, c. 262 BC, he became the head of the school, a post he held for the next 32 years...

Acrotatus (Greek: Ἀκρότατος; died 262 BC) was an Agiad King of Sparta from 265 to 262 BC. He was the son of Areus I, and grandson of Acrotatus. He had...

base at Akragas. A large Carthaginian army attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC but was heavily defeated at the Battle of Akragas. The Romans then built...

Roman consul and praetor 285–4 BC Lucius Postumius Megellus (consul 262 BC), Roman general, politician and consul (262 BC) Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus,...

infantry, 6,000 cavalry and 60 elephants attempted to lift the siege in 262 BC, but was badly defeated at the battle of Akragas. That night the Carthaginian...