508 BC

{{Year nav|-508}} {{BC year in topic|508}} __NOTOC__ The year '''508 BC''' was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire it was known as the '''Year of the Consulship of Poplicola and Tricipitinus'''<ref name="broughton">{{cite book |last=Broughton |first=T. Robert S. |title=The Magistrates of the Roman Republic |volume=1 |year=1951 |publisher=American Philological Association |page=3}}</ref> (or, less frequently, '''year 246 '' Ab urbe condita'''''). The denomination 508 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.

== Greece == * Athenian democracy in the city of Athens is established under Cleisthenes following the tyranny of Hippias.<ref>Herodotus, ''Histories'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=5.66 V, 66–69].</ref><ref>Aristotle, ''Athenian Constitution'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0045&layout=&loc=20 20–21].</ref>

== Italy == * A war is fought between Rome and Clusium.<ref>Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', 2.9–13.</ref> * Clusium fights a war with Aricia.<ref>Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', 2.14.</ref> * The office of ''rex sacrorum'' is created in Rome to carry out the religious duties formerly held by the kings.<ref>Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', 2.2.</ref>

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