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King Agis said, “The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.”
1) Spartan officer (sculpture), Hoplite 2) from Samos, 3) from Argos, 4) from Athens (Alkmaionid clan), Nick Sekunda, The Ancient Greeks
War is the father of all and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free, Heraclitus
Battle of Hysiae (or Hysiai), c. 669 BC Sparta defeated by Argos
Battle of Irasa, around 571 BC, Greeks from Cyrene led by Battus II victorious against a Libyan-Egyptian Army of Pharaoh Apries
Battle near Leucon c. 555/0 BC ? according to Herodotus 7000 hoplites of Arcesilaus II killed by the Libyans
Battle at Thyreae , 300 Argives against 300 Spartans
Battle of Alalia c. 540/535 BC, Etruscan and Phoenician against Phocaean colony in Corsica
The Greek Ionian colonies revolt is supported Athens and Eretria. Darius I, the Persian King and Pharaoh of Egypt, starts an expedition against the Greeks.
Battle of Leipsydrion 513/512 BC
The Battle of Sepeia 494 BC
The Battle of Lade 494 BC
The Battle of Miletus 494 BC
Siege of Lindos , a forgotten legendary Siege
The Battle of Marathon 490 BC -
Marathon, from The 15 decisive battle of the world, by Edward Creasy
Xerxes I ("The leader of Heroes") the son of Darius I, 10 years after his father was defeated in Marathon, starts a new expedition against the Greeks. From the East he attacks central Greece, from the West his allies the Carthagenians and Etruscans attack the Greek colonies in Italy. Aeschylus comments: "Now this is the battle for everything"
The Battle of Salamis 480 BC
The Battle of Himera 480 BC
The Battle of Artemisium 480 BC
The Battle of Thermopylae 480 BC
In the year 479 BC many Persian soldiers are killed by a Tsunami in Potidaea / Chalkidice.
The Battle of Mycale 479 BC
The Battle of Plataea 479 BC -Region from Space ,
The Battle of Cumae 474 BC
The Battle of the Eurymedon c. 466 BC
The Battle of Tanagra 457 BC
The Battle of Oenophyta 457 BC
The Battle of Salamis / Cyprus 450 BC
The Battle of Coronea 447 BC
The Battle of Sybota 433 BC
The Battle of Potidaea 432 BC
Among the gods who live on mount Olympus, you're the one I hate the most. For you love war, constant strife and battle. Zeus to Ares. Iliad |
Peloponnesian War, Athens and Allies versus Sparta and Allies
4 April 431 BC - 25 April 404 BC
Hoplite, drawing by Johnny Shumate
The Battle of Naupactus 429 BC
The Battle of Chalcis 429 BC
The Battle of Tanagra 426 BC
The Battle of Olpae 426 BC
The Battle of Pylos 425 BC
The Battle of Sphacteria 425 BC
The Battle of Delium 424 BC
The Battle of Amphipolis 422 BC
The Battle of Mantinea 418 BC
The Sicilian Expedition 415 - 413 BC
The Battle of Cynossema 411 BC
The Battle of Syme 411 BC
The Battle of Cyzicus 410 BC
The Battle of Arginusae 406 BC
- Diodorus Siculus Book 13 Chapter XIV
The Battle of Ephesus 406 BC
The Battle of Aegospotami 405 BC - great loss of the Athenian navy power in Aegospotami, near the Hellespont in today Turkey, Images
Peloponnesian War , Thucydides The History of The Peloponnesian War
The Battle of Cunaxa 401 BC, A Persian-Persian battle with Greek mercenaries among which Xenophon, the author of The Anabasis.
- The Battle of Haliartus 395 BC
- The Battle of Coronea 394 BC
- The Battle of Cnidus 394 BC
- The Battle of Nemea 394 BC
- The Battle of Lechaeum 391 BC
The Battle of Elleporus 389 BC
The Battle of Tegyra 385 BC
The Battle of Naxos 376 BC
The Battle of Leuctra 371 BC in central Greece
The Battle of Mantinea 362 BC
The Battle of Tamynae 349 BC
Munn, Mark H., The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C. Berekeley: University of California Press, 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0q2n99ng/ |
According to an analysis the 60000 men of Alexander's army required each single day around 300000 pounds water, 200000 pounds of grain. More than 350000 pounds of other material was necessary for the transport animals.
The Battle of the Crimissus 340 BC
The Battle of Chaeronea 338 BC -
The Battle of the Granicus River, 334 BC - a battle in northwest Turkey,
The Battle of Issus 333 BC, a battle close to the today Syrian-Turkey border Issus
Siege of Tyre, 332 BC
Battle of Megalopolis 331 BC , revolt of Sparta
The Battle of Gaugamela 331 BC, a battle between the forces of the Persian King Dareius III and Alexander the Great in a place today in Irak. The Battle is also known as Battle of Arbela.
"Alexander deserves the glory which he has enjoyed for so many centuries and among all nations; but what if he had been beaten at Arbela having the Euphrates, the Tigris, and the deserts in his rear, without any strong places of refuge, nine hundred leagues from Macedonia?"--NAPOLEON. Arbela, from The 15 decisive battle of the world, by Edward Creasy
The Battle of Pandosia 331 BC
The Battle of the Hydaspes River, 326 BC, a battle in the northwest India.
Hypaspist , drawing by Johnny Shumate
Wars of Alexander's Diadochoi