4th century BC

Millennium:	1st millennium BC
Centuries:	5th century BC · 4th century BC · 3rd century BC
Decades:	390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

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

People

• Praxiteles
• Alexander the Great

4th Century BC Media

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  Alexander the Great of Macedon created one of the largest empires of the ancient world.

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  Map of the world in 400 BC, the beginning of the fourth century BC.

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  Map of the world in 323 BC.

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  Map of the world in 300 BC, the end of the fourth century BC.

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  Philip II

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  Bust of the Greek orator Demosthenes. Marble, Roman artwork, inspired from a bronze statue by Polyeuctos (ca. 280 BC). Found in Italy.

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  Original caption: Xenophon: Marmorbüste im Kgl. Museum, Berlin

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  Herm representing Plato, with a modern inscription mistakingly identifying him as Zeno. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from the last quarter of the 4th century.

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  Antisthenes. Roman copy after a Hellenistic original.

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  Bust of Aristotle. Marble, Roman copy after a Greek bronze original by Lysippos from 330 BC; the alabaster mantle is a modern addition.