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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. [5] The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic, commanded by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix on the one hand, and the forces of the Kingdom of Pontus and the Athenian City-State on the other.
The siege of Athens can refer to any of the following battles: Persian sack of Athens (480 BC) - Amid which the Persians besieged a group of holdouts in the Acropolis; Siege of Athens (404 BC) - Last battle in the Peloponnesian War; Siege of Athens (287 BC) - Siege by Demetrius I of Macedon
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The siege of Athens lasted through 287 BC when the city was put under siege by King Demetrius I of Macedon. Athens revolted in that year against Demetrius' rule and elected Olympiodorus as strategos. Olympiodorus raised a force among the Athenian citizens, including old men and children, and attacked the Macedonian garrison that had retreated ...
The Theban hegemony; power-blocks in Greece in the decade up to 362 BC.. In the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War, the militaristic city-state of Sparta had been able to impose a hegemony over the heartland of Classical Greece (the Peloponessus and mainland Greece south of Thessaly), the states of this area having been severely weakened by the war.
By the mid-5th century BC, the League had become an Athenian Empire, symbolized by the transfer of the League's treasury from Delos to the Parthenon in 454 BC. Map of the Athenian empire c. 450 BC. The wealth of Athens attracted talented people from all over Greece, and also created a wealthy leisure class who became patrons of the arts.
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In the meantime, the siege of Athens continued. On 5 February 1827, a force of 2,300 Greeks under the command of Colonel Thomas Gordon landed at Piraeus, and laid siege to the monastery of Ayios Spiridhon, held by Turkish and Albanian troops. [182] In April 1827, Church and Cochrane arrived at Athens and immediately clashed over strategy. [184]