241 BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • Agis IV, Eurypontid King of Sparta who has failed in his attempt to reform Sparta's economic and political structure (b. c. 265 BC)
  • Eumenes I, ruler of Pergamum from 263 BC, liberator of his city from the overlordship of the Seleucids
  • Arcesilaus, Greek philosopher, who has become the sixth head of the Greek Academy founded by Plato (b. c. 316 BC)


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