The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from autumn of 87 BC to the spring of 86 BC. The battle was fought...
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and Piraeus (87–86 BC) - Siege by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix during the First Mithridatic War Sack of Athens by the Heruli in 267 AD Sack of Athens by...
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Long Walls (category Ancient Greek buildings and structures in Piraeus)
of the 1st century BC. However, during the First Mithridatic War, the Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) was won by the Roman general Sulla and he...
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Africanus Siege of Cirta (113 BC) – Jugurthine War Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) – First Mithridatic War Siege of Mytilene (81 BC) Siege of Cyzicus...
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First Mithridatic War (category 87 BC)
Athens, nevertheless, remained loyal to Mithridates, despite a bitter siege throughout the winter of 87/6. Sulla captured Athens on March 1, 86 BC, but...
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Hermes (redirect from Hermes (Greek religion and mythology))
Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC). There was a popular, now lost play by the tragedian Astydamas with Hermes as the primary subject. As Greek culture and influence...
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The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually...
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Hellenistic period (redirect from History of Greece (323 BC–146 BC))
One example is Athens, which had been decisively defeated by Antipater in the Lamian war (323–322 BC) and had its port in the Piraeus garrisoned by Macedonian...
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Morean War (redirect from Siege of Navarino (1686))
entered Piraeus. The Turks quickly evacuated the town of Athens, but the garrison and much of the population withdrew to the ancient Acropolis of Athens, determined...
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proconsul Lucius Cassius. 87–86 BC – Siege of Athens and Piraeus – Sulla takes Athens, which had sided with Mithridates. 86 BC – Battle of Tenedos – Lucullus...
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Athens under Thrasybulus and in the Battle of Phyle followed by the Battle of Munichia and the Battle of Piraeus defeated the Athenian supporters of the...
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Macedonia (ancient kingdom) (redirect from Kingdom of Macedon)
the old powers of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC. Philip II's son Alexander the Great, leading a federation of Greek states, accomplished...
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laying siege to Athens and the Piraeus (the Athenian port city, no longer connected by the Long Walls). Athens fell in March 86 BC, and the city was sacked...
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First Peloponnesian War (category Wars involving Athens)
express wishes of Sparta. In 479 BC and 478 BC Athens also took a much more active role in the Aegean campaigning. In the winter of 479–478 BC they accepted...
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the Great Harbour Retreat and annihilation of the Athenian army. 7.72–7.87 Book 8 (413–411 BC) Disbelief and despair in Athens. 8.1 Allies revolt. 8.2–4...
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Lucullus (redirect from Lucius Licinius Lucullus (consul 74 BC))
southern Greece (87-86 BC). The money Lucullus minted, as per Roman custom, bore his name: the so called Lucullea. As the Roman siege of Athens was drawing...
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Lamian War (category Wars involving Athens)
BC) was an unsuccessful attempt by Athens and a large coalition of Greek states to end the hegemony of Macedonia over Greece just after the death of Alexander...
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of Ictinus) Side (mythology) Siege of Athens (287 BC) Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) Siege of Eretria Siege of Gythium Siege of Lamia Siege of...
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his reign, relying on Athens to provide naval support in his 410 BC siege of Pydna, and in exchange providing Athens with timber and naval equipment. With...
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Wars) Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) – 87 BC – 86 BC – First Mithridatic War (Mithridatic Wars) Battle of Chaeronea (86 BC) – 86 BC – First Mithridatic...
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Sulla (redirect from Cornelia (daughter of Sulla))
outside Piraeus, Sulla's forces forced the Pontic garrison to withdraw by sea. Capturing the city, Sulla had it destroyed. In the summer of 86 BC, two major...
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Theban–Spartan War (category 370s BC conflicts)
Sparta had emerged victorious from the Peloponnesian War against Athens (431–404 BC), and occupied an hegemonic position over Greece. However, the Spartans'...
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Ancient Carthage (redirect from Site of Carthage)
city-state and then an empire. Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC, Carthage reached its height in the fourth century BC as one of the largest...
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Achaemenid Empire (redirect from Timeline of the Achaemenid Empire)
Peace of Callias was agreed between Athens, Argos and Persia in 449 BC. Artaxerxes offered asylum to Themistocles, who was the winner of the Battle of Salamis...
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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling:...
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Roman command structure during First Mithridatic War (category Military of ancient Rome)
the start of the campaign season Sulla left Piraeus, Port of Athens, with 5 legions and 6000 cavalry for the city of Patras on the coast of the Peloponnesus...
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Ptolemy II Philadelphus (redirect from Ptolemy II of Egypt)
28 January 246 BC) was the pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 284 to 246 BC. He was the son of Ptolemy I, the Macedonian Greek general of Alexander the Great...
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Samos (redirect from List of municipalities in Chios and Samos)
Peloponnesians and as a temporary home of the Athenian democracy during the revolution of the Four Hundred at Athens (411 BC), and in the last stage of the war...
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Attalus I (redirect from Attalus I of Pergamum)
reinforcements arrived, the siege was abandoned, and the siege works were destroyed. Attalus and his army sailed for Piraeus. Also in 198 BC, a renewed struggle...
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Mycenaean Greece (redirect from History of Mycenaean Greece)
last phase of the Bronze Age in ancient Greece, spanning the period from approximately 1750 to 1050 BC. It represents the first advanced and distinctively...
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