317 BC

Year 317 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Brutus and Barbula (or, less frequently, year 437 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 317 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.

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC 4th century BC 3rd century BC
Decades:	330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC
Years:	320 BC 319 BC 318 BC 317 BC 316 BC 315 BC 314 BC

317 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	317 BC CCCXVII BC
Ab urbe condita	437
Ancient Egypt era	XXXIII dynasty, 7
- Pharaoh	Ptolemy I Soter, 7
Ancient Greek era	115th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar	4434
Balinese saka calendar	N/A
Bengali calendar	−909
Berber calendar	634
Buddhist calendar	228
Burmese calendar	−954
Byzantine calendar	5192–5193
Chinese calendar	癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 2381 or 2174     — to — 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 2382 or 2175
Coptic calendar	−600 – −599
Discordian calendar	850
Ethiopian calendar	−324 – −323
Hebrew calendar	3444–3445
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	−260 – −259
- Shaka Samvat	N/A
- Kali Yuga	2784–2785
Holocene calendar	9684
Iranian calendar	938 BP – 937 BP
Islamic calendar	967 BH – 966 BH
Javanese calendar	N/A
Julian calendar	N/A
Korean calendar	2017
Minguo calendar	2228 before ROC 民前2228年
Nanakshahi calendar	−1784
Thai solar calendar	226–227
Tibetan calendar	阴水兔年 (female Water-Rabbit) −190 or −571 or −1343     — to — 阳木龙年 (male Wood-Dragon) −189 or −570 or −1342

Events

By place

Macedonian Empire

• Battle of Byzantium: At the start of the year, Antigonus Monophthalmus sends Nicanor with a large fleet to do battle with Cleitus the White at the Hellespont. The two fleets meet in near Byzantium, Cleitus wins a victory in which some 70 ships of Nicanor are captured, sunk or disabled, the remnant excaping to Chalcedon, where they are joined by Antigonus and his army. Antigonus orders the remaining 60 ships to be readied for renewed action, and assigns his strongest and most loyal soldiers as marines to these ships. Meanwhile, the Byzantines transport his archers, slingers and peltast to the European shore, where Cleitus's victorious forces were encamped. At dawn the next day Antigonus launches an assault by land and sea and catches Cleitus completely by surprise; Cleitus’s entire force is captured or killed.
• Seleucus joins Antigonus against Eumenes and recaptures Babylon.
• Battle of Paraitacene: The first battle of Western armies each with an elephant corps who fight for control over Alexander's empire. The armies of Antigonus and Eumenes fight each other near today's Isfahan in Persia with no clear victor.
• Armenia's Persian satrap, Ardvates, frees his country from Macedonian control.
• After capturing Athens from Macedonia's regent Polyperchon, Cassander entrusts the government of Athens to the Athenian orator, statesman, and philosopher, Demetrius Phalereus.
• Polyperchon flees to Epirus, where he joins Alexander the Great's mother Olympias, Alexander's widow Roxana, and Alexander's infant son Alexander IV. He forms an alliance with Olympias, who is acting as regent for Alexander IV, and King Aeacides of Epirus.
• While Cassander is occupied in the Peloponnesus, Olympias leads an army into Macedonia. She is initially successful, defeating the army of King Philip III Arrhidaeus and capturing King Philip and his wife, Eurydice, as well as Cassander's brother, Nicanor. She then has them murdered.
• Ptolemy marries Berenice, lady-in-waiting to his first wife Eurydice.

Sicily

• Acestorides, a native of Corinth, is made supreme commander by the citizens of Syracuse.
• After twice being banished for attempting to overthrow the oligarchical party, Agathocles returns with an army and banishes or murders about 10,000 citizens (including the oligarchs), and sets himself up as tyrant of Syracuse. Acestorides is banished from the city.

By topic

Art

• Private funeral monuments are banned in Athenian cemeteries.

Literature

• Menander wins the first prize at the Lenaian festival with his play Dyskolos (The Grouch).

Deaths

• King Philip III of Macedon (b. c. 359 BC)
• Queen Eurydice III of Macedon
• Nicanor Macedonian officer of Cassander and the son in law of Aristotle.
• Cleitus the White