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The siege of Melos occurred in 416 BC during the Peloponnesian War, which was a war fought between Athens and Sparta. Melos is an island in the Aegean Sea roughly 110 kilometres (68 miles) east of mainland Greece. Though the Melians had ancestral ties to Sparta, they were neutral in the war. Athens invaded Melos in the summer of 416 BC and ...
In the summer of 416 BC, during a truce with Sparta, Athens invaded the neutral island of Melos, and demanded that Melos ally with them against Sparta, or be destroyed. The Melians rejected this, so the Athenian army laid siege to their city and eventually captured it in the winter.
Battle of Melos: Athens invades Melos. 413 BC Sicilian Expedition: The Athenian expedition in Sicily, under Nicias and Demosthenes, is annihilated. 411 BC: Battle of Eretria: Spartans defeat the Athenian fleet. Battle of Syme: Spartans defeat Athenian fleet; Persia is drawn into the Peloponnesian War. Battle of Kynossema
Milos or Melos (/ ˈ m iː l ɒ s,-l oʊ s /; Modern Greek: Μήλος, romanized: Mílos, IPA:; Ancient Greek: Μῆλος, romanized: Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwestern-most island in the Cyclades group.
Megara eludes Athenian capture. 4.74; Invasion of Boeotia. 4.76, 4.89–4.101.2 Battle of Delium results in Athenian retreat into a temple, which the Boeotians attack and burn down. 4.90–4.100; Brasidas marches through Thessaly to Thrace and begins to cause Athenian subject cities to revolt. 4.78–4.88 Speech of Brasidas to the Acanthians. 4 ...
Although Athens had never involved itself deeply in Sicilian affairs, it had ties there before the onset of the Peloponnesian War, dating back to at least the mid-5th century BC. [10] To small Sicilian cities, Athens was a potential counter to the powerful city of Syracuse, which was strong enough to potentially dominate the island.
The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, [1] founded in 478 BC [2] under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece. [3]
The Battle of Tanagra took place during the Peloponnesian War in 426 BC between Athens, Tanagra and Thebes. [1] In 426 Athens sent a fleet to the island of Melos consisting of 60 ships and 2,000 hoplites under the command of Nicias. Melos had refused to join the Delian League, and