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Lamia prospered afterwards, especially in the 3rd century BC under Aetolian hegemony, which came to an end when Manius Acilius Glabrio sacked the city in 190 BC. Little is known of the city's history for a number of centuries after that.
The archaeological museum is located within the grounds of Lamia Castle on the acropolis of Lamia, [3] [4] the capital of the Fthiotida Prefecture. [5] The castle was originally built in 1830 by Otto, the Bavarian first king of Greece after Greece attained independence. During World War II it was an army barracks.
Lamia was the daughter born between King Belus of Egypt and Lybie, according to one source. [a] [11] [17] According to the same source, Lamia was taken by Zeus to Italy, and that Lamos, the city of the man-eating Laestrygonians, was named after her. [11] A different authority remarks that Lamia was once queen of the Laestrygonians. [19] [b] [c]
Military history of Lamia (city) (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "History of Lamia (city)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The siege of Lamia occurred from 323 to 322 BC between the Macedonians led by Antipater and a coalition of armies mostly from central Greece led by Leosthenes. [1] The siege gave its name to the Lamian War. After Antipater was defeated at the Second Battle of Thermopylae, he shut himself in the city of Lamia. Leosthenes approached the city and ...
Moving west Philip probably also took Phalara the port city of Lamia, in the Maliac Gulf. Sulpicius and Dorimachus took Aegina, an island in the Saronic Gulf, which the Aetolians sold to Attalus, the Pergamene king, for thirty talents, and which he was to use as his base of operations against Macedon in the Aegean Sea.
History of Lamia (city) (1 C, 3 P) P. PAS Lamia 1964 (2 C, 2 P) People from Lamia (city) (2 C, 11 P) Y. Ypati (11 P) Pages in category "Lamia (city)" The following 17 ...
Ypati (Greek: Υπάτη) is a village and a former municipality in Phthiotis, central peninsular Greece.Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Lamia, of which it is a municipal unit. [2]