Antiquity and before

**Antiquity** refers to the period starting with the 9th century BCE and ending with the 4th century CE; this page lists events known or likely to have occurred before or during these years (using **boldface** to denote canonical data).

## Canonical plot

Main article: **B.C. Era** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Main article: **First millennium A.D.** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
## Births

* 5th century BCE: **Ollivander**
* 4th century BCE: **Dzou Yen, famous Chinese alchemist.**

### Date unspecified

* Emperor Archimedes
* **Goliath**
* **Goliath's slayer**
* **Herpo the Foul**
* **Herpo the Foul's Basilisk**
* **Odysseus**
* **Cyclops**
* **Mopsus (antiquity)**
* **Calchas**
* **Circe**
* **Andros the Invincible**
* **Falco Aesalon**
* Lucius Poterius Magnus (first century BCE)

## Other events

* 11th century BCE: Ki adepts hunt down and kill the dark wizards employed by the Chinese Shang dynasty, paving the way for the Zhou dynasty to take over.
* 600 BCE (appr.): Massalia (today Marseille) is founded by Greek settlers from Phocaea (in modern-day Turkey); at some point before 49 BCE they are joined by a colony of veela.
* 382 BCE: **The Ancient Roman Ollivander starts the family's wand-making business.**
* 72–80: **The Coliseum is built in Rome.**
* 79: **Zaccaria Innocenti casts the Dancing Feet Spell on Mount Vesuvius, causing it to erupt, subsequently killing 1,500.**
* 236: **The Diagon Dispensary is established.**

### Date unspecified

* Ancient Greece
	+ **Herpo the Foul first hatches the Basilisk and possibly devises the ritual to create a Horcrux.** He is executed on the orders of Emperor Archimedes, but survives due to his horcrux; afterwards, he moves to Italy where he lives for another century until his horcrux is destroyed in a siege of his tower.
	+ **First recording of an Animagus — Falco Aesalon.**
	+ **Odysseus slays Cyclops.**
	+ **Mopsus, a Seer, defeats Calchas in a competition of their powers.**
	+ **Circe transfigures lost sailors into pigs in her native Aeaea.**
	+ **Andros the Invincible produces the only recorded patronus the size of a giant.**
	+ **After the only battle in which a chimaera was defeated, the heroic wizard is so badly injured and exhausted that he falls from his winged horse to his death.**
	+ Veela created by Aphrodite (according to their own oral history) settle in Cyprus and from there follow settlers to most parts of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean world, including what is now Marseille and Bulgaria.
* Ancient Egypt
	+ **Various dynasties develop pyramids, mummies, and magical protections later requiring Curse-Breakers.**
	+ Several magical wars are fought.
* Ancient Middle East
	+ **In the Israelite-Philistine war, the Giant mercenary Goliath is slayed by a young boy with a slingshot.**
* Ancient Rome
	+ The Iceni Black breed of dragons go extinct (after the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 CE)

## References

1. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 2
2. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 5
3. ↑ *The Girl Who Loved*, Chapter 6
4. ↑ Marseille at *Wikipedia*; accessed 11 January 2024
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 17
6. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 12
7. ↑ *The Code*, Chapter 2
8. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 4