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4th century BC

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Millennia:
2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium

The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC.

Overview

This century marks the height of the Classical Greek civilization in all of its aspects. With the conquests of Alexander and the civil war of his generals that followed his death the Hellenistic age began.

Events

Bust of Alexander the Great in the British Museum.

Significant People

"The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929).

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

Decades and years

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