title: 313 BC
text: # 313 BC
  
  Year 313 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Cursor and Brutus (or, less frequently, year 441 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 313 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.
  
  ## Events
  
  ### By place
  
  **Macedonian Empire**
  
  * Antigonus sends Telesphorus (general) to the Peloponnesus to free the cities.
  
  **Egypt**
  
  * Ptolemy, whose Egyptian kingdom includes Cyprus, puts down a revolt there. A revolt in Cyrene is also crushed.
  
  **Greece**
  
  * Becoming tired of the Macedonian rule, the people of Epirus recall their former king Aeacides. Cassander immediately sends an army against him under his brother, Philip, who is diverted from invading Aetolia.
  * Philip defeats Aeacides in a battle. Aeacides, with the remnant of his forces, joins the Aetolians. A second battle takes place, in which Philip is again victorious, and Aeacides is killed. The remaining Aetolian army takes refuge in the surrounding mountains.
  
  **Asia**
  
  * Asander agrees to send all his soldiers to Antigonus to help keep Greek cities autonomous
  * Asander sends emissaries to Ptolemy and Seleucus asking for help
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Aeacides, King of Epirus
  