# 508 BC

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The year '''508 BC''' was a year of the [pre-Julian Roman calendar](/source/Roman_calendar). In the [Roman Empire](/source/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](/source/Ab_urbe_condita)'''''). The denomination 508 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the [Anno Domini](/source/Anno_Domini) [calendar era](/source/calendar_era) became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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

== Italy ==
* A [war](/source/Roman%E2%80%93Etruscan_Wars) is fought between Rome and Clusium.<ref>[Livy](/source/Livy), ''[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita_libri_(Livy))'', [2.9–13](/source/s%3AFrom_the_Founding_of_the_City%2FBook_2).</ref>
* Clusium fights a [war](/source/War_between_Clusium_and_Aricia) with Aricia.<ref>[Livy](/source/Livy), ''[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita_libri_(Livy))'', [2.14](/source/s%3AFrom_the_Founding_of_the_City%2FBook_2).</ref>
* The office of ''[rex sacrorum](/source/rex_sacrorum)'' is created in [Rome](/source/Rome) to carry out the religious duties formerly held by the kings.<ref>[Livy](/source/Livy), ''[Ab urbe condita](/source/Ab_urbe_condita_libri_(Livy))'', [2.2](/source/s%3AFrom_the_Founding_of_the_City%2FBook_2).</ref>

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