297 BC

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Year 297 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

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Roman Republic

  • Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes consul for the fourth time. He defeats the Samnites in a battle near Tifernum.

Greece

  • After Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, becomes King of Macedon. Soon after this he suffers from a wasting disease and dies. Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother Alexander V.
  • Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to Greece to become master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece, Lysimachus seizes his possessions in Asia Minor.
  • Ptolemy decides to support Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman, Neoptolemus II of Epirus. But he has him assassinated.

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