297 BC

Year 297 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. 

 Events 
 By place 
 Roman Republic 
 Fabius Maximus Rullianus becomes consul for the fourth time. He defeats the Samnites in a battle near Tifernum.

 Greece 
 After Cassander's death from illness, Philip IV, Cassander's eldest son, becomes King of Macedon.  Soon after this he suffers from a wasting disease and dies. Antipater, the next son, rules jointly with his brother Alexander V.
 Demetrius Poliorcetes returns to Greece to become master of Macedonia. While Demetrius is in Greece, Lysimachus seizes his possessions in Asia Minor.
 Ptolemy decides to support Pyrrhus of Epirus and restores him to his kingdom. At first Pyrrhus reigns with a kinsman, Neoptolemus II of Epirus.  But he has him assassinated.

 India 
 Chandragupta Maurya goes to Sravana Belagola near Mysore to live in the way of Jains.
 Bindusara his son goes to the Pataliputra throne.

 Deaths 

 King Cassander of Macedon (b. c. 358 BC)