Nevertheless the Carthaginian faction that opposed the conflict, led by the land-owning aristocrat Hanno the Great, gained power and in 244 BC, and considering the war to be over, started the demobilization of the fleet, giving the Romans a chance to again attain naval superiority.

* 244 BC: With little to no naval engagements, Hanno the Great of Carthage advocates demobilization of large parts of the Carthaginian navy to save money.

By Aristotle's day ( 384 – 322 BC ) citizenship had been reduced from 9, 000 to less than 1, 000, and then further decreased to 700 at the accession of Agis IV in 244 BC.

He married Berenice of Cyrene in the year corresponding to 244 / 243 BC ; and their children were:

* Ptolemy IV Philopator, born ca 244 BC

Year 244 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The denomination 244 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.

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In 244 BC Hamilcar transferred his army at night by sea to a similar position on the slopes of Mt.

Adding 241, 200 years to 2900 gives the date 244, 100 BC ; however, most modern scholars do not believe the ancient Sumerians or Babylonians believed in a chronology of their own this old.

Osroene, also spelled Osrohene and Osrhoene (; ) and sometimes known by the name of its capital city, Edessa ( modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey ), was a historical kingdom located in upper Mesopotamia, which enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 244.

This occurred in 244 BC which caused a civil war for the next 17 years between Seleucus II and Antiochus Hierax.

* Aulus Manlius T. f. T. n. Torquatus Atticus, consul in 244 and 241 BC.

Ecclesiastical historians have claimed that in the last years of Emperor Philip the Arab ( reigned 244 – 249 ), during otherwise undocumented festivities to commemorate the millennium of the founding of Rome ( traditionally in 753 BC, putting the date about 248 ), the fury of the Alexandrian mob rose to a great height, and when one of their poets prophesied a calamity, they committed bloody outrages on the Christians, whom the authorities made no effort to protect.

Hanno demobilized the Carthaginian navy in 244 BC, giving Rome time to rebuild its navy and finally defeat Carthage by 241 BC.

* March 23 Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St Matthew Passion BWV 244 ( BC D 3b ) with some further revisions of instrumentation and voicing at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

* March 29 Johann Sebastian Bach revives his St Matthew Passion BWV 244 ( BC D 3b ) with some instrumentation, vocal, and textual changes from earlier version ( BC D 3a ) and scored separately for two choirs and orchestras ( with two Continuo parts ) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

Like Ennius he probably belonged to an Oscan stock, and was born at Brundisium, which had become a Roman colony in 244 BC.

Bradman ( 244 ) and Ponsford ( 266 ) were in record-breaking form with a partnership of 451 for the second wicket.

This fort, situated on a steep hill, towers more than 800 ft ( 244 m ) above the eponymous township, and contains the ruins of several temples adorned with elaborately carved sculptures.

Its mass number was uncertain between 243 and 244 in the initial report, but was later established as 243.

During " Thank God I'm a Country Boy ", Charlie Zill an usher in the club level sections ( 244 ) puts on overalls, straw hat, false teeth and starts dancing around.

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The population density was 632. 5 people per square mile ( 244. 2 / km² ).

The population density was 2, 244. 6 people per square mile ( 866. 9 / km² ).

Diocletian (; c. 22 December 244 – 3 December 311 ), was a Roman Emperor from 284 to 305.

Diocletian was probably born near Salona in Dalmatia ( Solin in modern Croatia ), some time around 244.

* 244 – Diocletian, Roman Emperor ( d. 311 )

* K. Malhotra, S. Gardner, and R. Patz, Implementation of Elliptic-Curve Cryptography on Mobile Healthcare Devices, Networking, Sensing and Control, 2007 IEEE International Conference on, London, 15 – 17 April 2007 Page ( s ): 239 – 244

* 2004 – 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia.

At present Gernika-Lumo has 16, 244 ( 2009 ) inhabitants.

), The Handbook of English Linguistics ( pp. 244 – 268 ).

Macedonia has deployed 244 troops to Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

Jackson Pollock, No. 5, 1948, oil on fiberboard, 244 x 122 cm.

The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

Aristotle remained at the academy for nearly twenty years before quitting Athens in 348 / 47 BC.

Soon after Hermias ' death, Aristotle was invited by Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor to his son Alexander in 343 BC.

By 335 BC he had returned to Athens, establishing his own school there known as the Lyceum.

It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works.

Frenzied women like Sibyls from whose lips the god speaks are recorded in the Near East as Mari in the second millennium BC.

Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

Brygos ( potter signed ), Tondo of an Attic red-figure cup c. 470 BC, Louvre.

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.

Symbols on Gerzean pottery resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to c. 4000 BC, suggesting a still earlier possible date.

According to Igor M. Diakonoff ( 1988: 33n ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 10, 000 BC.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.