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292 bc

• With money from the common treasury of Massalian league a temple of Aesculapius was built in Massalia.
• Praxagoras an influential figure of medicine in ancient Greece invited by the Palaioi company to to establish a branch of the famous dogmatic school of medicine of Kos.
• The expedition under Adelphius is back from red sea with the report of their travels.

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Greece

• Lysimachus tries to extend his influence beyond the Danube River, but he is defeated and taken prisoner by the Getae (Dacian) king Dromichaetes (Dromihete). Eventually, Lysimachus is set free and a peace is agreed between the Getae and Lysimachus. This peace agreement is strengthened further by the marriage of Dromichaetes with Lysimachus' daughter.
• While Demetrius Poliorcetes is campaigning in Boeotia, he receives news that Lysimachus, the ruler of Thrace, has been taken prisoner by Dromichaetes. Hoping to seize Lysimachus's territories in Thrace, Demetrius, delegates command of his forces in Boeotia to his son, Antigonus and immediately marches north. However, while he is away, the Boeotians rise in rebellion, but are defeated by Antigonus, who bottles them up in the city of Thebes and puts them under siege.

291 BC

• Carthage pirates raided again trade ships near Emporion.
• Dynatoi company sponsors a small expedition through the lands of Volcae to reach the Atlantic ocean.

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Greece

• Demetrius Poliorcetes joins his son, Antigonus, in the siege of Thebes. As the Thebans defend their city stubbornly, Demetrius forces his men to attack the city at great cost. Demetrius finally takes the city after using siege engines to demolish its walls.

Roman Republic

• The Romans storm and take the Samnite city of Venusia.

290 BC

Strategos Orestes and the military expedition of massaliot league in Rome, was finally back home after five years. There they helped the Romans win their war against the Samnites. This military expedition made strategos Orestes really appreciate the newly formatted manipular roman legion.

• The expedition of dynatoi through the lands of Volcae was ambushed and annihilated.
• To deal with the pirate raids near Emporion, the company of Palaioi sponsored another five quinqueremes for the fleet of Massalia which now consist of twenty quinquereme, twenty quadrireme and several smaller ships. The five new quinqueremes will be stationed permanent in Emporion.

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Roman Republic

• Roman general and consul, Manius Curius Dentatus, gains a decisive victory over the Samnites, thereby ending a war that has lasted 50 years. He also reduces the Sabine insurgents to submission, their territory is annexed and they are granted civitas sine suffragio ("citizenship without the right to vote"). The Samnites are recognised by the Romans as autonomous allies. The Samnites are forced to give up some of their land to the Romans as compensation.

Egypt

• Berenice, wife of Ptolemy, is proclaimed queen of Egypt. Ptolemy has the city of Berenice built on the Red Sea in her honour. It becomes a great emporium for Egyptian trade with the East.