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Year '''438 BC''' was a year of the [[Roman calendar|pre-Julian Roman calendar]]. At the time, it was known as the '''Year of the Tribunate of Mamercinus, Iullus and Cincinnatus''' (or, less frequently, '''year 316 ''[[Ab urbe condita]]'''''). The denomination 438 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.

== Events ==
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=== By place ===
==== Greece ====
* The [[Parthenon]] on the [[Acropolis]] at [[Athens]] is completed by [[Ictinus]] and [[Callicrates]] and is consecrated after 9 years of construction. It is dedicated at the [[Panathenaic Games|Panathenaea]] (a festival held in honour of [[Athena]] every four years on the Acropolis).
* The colossal statue of the [[Athena Parthenos]], which [[Phidias]] has made for the Parthenon, is completed and dedicated. It is made of gold and ivory and stands some 12 metres high.
* Telephus, a play by the renowned playwright [[Euripides]], is produced in Athens. This tragedy did not survive to modern times.

==== Italy ====
* The city of [[Capua]] falls to the [[Samnites]].

=== By topic ===
==== Literature ====
* The [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] playwright [[Euripides]]' play ''[[Alcestis (play)|Alcestis]]'' is performed in the [[Dionysia]], an [[Athens|Athenian]] dramatic festival.

==== Art ====
* Three seated Goddesses (possibly Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite), from the [[Pediments of the Parthenon#East Pediment|east pediment]] of the [[Parthenon]], are made (finished in [[432 BC]]). They are now kept at The [[British Museum]] in London.
* The [[Ionic order|Ionic]] frieze on the north side of the [[Parthenon]], is created (finished in [[432 BC]]). Parts of this frieze are now preserved in museums in Europe, including the ''Horsemen'' (at the [[British Museum]], London), and the ''Marshals and Young Women'' (now at [[Louvre|Musée du Louvre]], Paris), which once formed part of the ''Procession'' on the frieze.
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== Births ==
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== Deaths ==
* [[Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus|Cincinnatus]], Roman politician, consul and dictator (b. [[519 BC]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Cincinnatus |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095612752?rskey=rE1UuS&result=5 |website=Oxford Reference |access-date=5 February 2022 |language=en }}</ref>

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