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Year 313 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Brutus (or, less frequently, year 441 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 313 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Events

By place

Macedonian Empire

• Antigonus sends Telesphorus (general) to the Peloponnesus to free the cities.

Egypt

• Ptolemy, whose Egyptian kingdom includes Cyprus, puts down a revolt there. A revolt in Cyrene is also crushed.

Greece

• Becoming tired of Macedonian rule, the people of Epirus recall their former king Aeacides. Cassander immediately sends an army against him under his brother, Philip, who is diverted from invading Aetolia.
• Philip defeats Aeacides in a battle. Aeacides, with the remnant of his forces, joins the Aetolians. A second battle takes place, in which Philip is again victorious, and Aeacides is killed. The remaining Aetolian army takes refuge in the surrounding mountains.

• Aristodemus of Miletus, Antigonus' top diplomat, is able to persuade the Aetolian League to support Antigonus.
• Aristodemus and his mercenary army (he had recruited an army of mercenaries the year before) cross over to the Pelopponese and fight Alexander, the son of Polyperchon, at Elis and liberate Patrae and Aegium from Cassander's garrisons. Aristodemus then returns to Aetolia, leaving a sizeable force in the Pelopponese who help the city of Dyme eject its garrison.
• Philip defeats Aeacides in a battle. Aeacides, with the remnant of his forces, joins the Aetolians.
• Cassander, hearing of Aristodemus' success with the Aetolians, marches south himself at the head of the main Macedonian field arm, persuades the Acarnanians to ally with him, and campaigns successfully along the Adriatic coast. Philip manages to defeat Aeacides for the second time (Aeacides dies in battle). At the end of the year Cassander returns to Macedon.

Asia

• Asander agrees to send all his soldiers to Antigonus to help keep Greek cities autonomous
• Asander sends emissaries to Ptolemy and Seleucus asking for help

Births

Deaths

• Aeacides, King of Epirus

References

1. ^ Siculus, Diodorus. "74". Library. Vol. XIX.
2. Siculus, Diodorus. "66". Library. Vol. XIX.
3. Siculus, Diodorus. "67". Library. Vol. XIX.
4. Diod. XIX 67,3-68,2
5. ^ Siculus, Diodorus. "75". Library. Vol. XIX.

• 313 BC