མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) −177 or −558 or −1330 — to — མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) −176 or −557 or −1329
Year304 BC was a year of thepre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as theYear of the Consulship of Sophus and Saverrio (or, less frequently,year 450Ab urbe condita). The denomination 304 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when theAnno Dominicalendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Demetrius shows ingenuity in devising a new siege engine: a wheeled siege tower namedHelepolis (or "Taker of Cities"), which stands 40 meters tall and 20 meters wide and weighs 180 tons.[1]
Demetrius Poliorcetes and the Rhodians come to a truce, with the agreement that the city should be autonomous, should keep its own revenue and that the Rhodians should be allies of Antigonus unless he is at war withPtolemy.[2]
Antigonus then concludes a peace treaty and an alliance with the island state, guaranteeing it autonomy and neutrality in his conflicts withPtolemy.[3][2]
Demetrius Poliorcetes invades mainland Greece for Asia-Minor, drives Cassander out of central Greece and liberates Athens. In return, the Athenians bestow on him a new religious honour, synnaos (meaning "having the same temple") of the temple of the goddessAthena.
Thesecond Samnite war formally ends with a peace agreement in which theSamnites obtain peace on terms that are severe but not as crushing as those agreed by theRomans with theEtruscans four years earlier. Under the peace, Rome gains no territory, but the Samnites renounce their hegemony overCampania. Rome is also successful in ending the revolts amongst the tribes surrounding Roman territory.[4]
