245 BC

245 BC was a year in the pre-Julian Roman calendar. As the Julian calendar wasn't implemented until 45 BC, this year is defined proleptically.

Events

• The First Punic War continues between Rome and Carthage.
• Antigonus II Gonatas continues to rule Macedon.

Births

• Hannibal Barca, Carthaginian general, is traditionally said to have been born in this year, although other dates are also given (d. 183/182 BC).
• Attalus I Soter, ruler of Pergamon (d. 197 BC).

Deaths

• Apollonius of Rhodes, Greek epic poet and grammarian, author of the Argonautica (b. c. 295 BC).
• Eratosthenes, Greek mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and music theorist (b. c. 276 BC).