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Battle of Crannon
Part of the Lamian War
Date
August 322 BC
Location
Thessaly
Result
Macedonian victory
Belligerents
Macedon
Athens, Aetolian League, Thessaly
Commanders and leaders
Antipater, Craterus
Antiphilus, Menon of Pharsalus
Strength
40,000 infantry, 3,000 slingers and archers, 5,000 cavalry
25,000 infantry,
3,500 cavalry
Casualties and losses
130 dead
500 dead
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t
e
Lamian War
Land
Plataea
Thermopylae
Lamia
Melitaea
Crannon
Sea
Echinades
Amorgos
The Battle of Crannon (322 BC), fought between the Macedonian forces of Antipater and Craterus and the forces of a coalition of cities including Athens and the Aetolian League, was the decisive battle of the Lamian War. The Macedonian victory, though militarily unspectacular, convinced the other Greeks to sue for peace.
The BattleofCrannon (322 BC), fought between the Macedonian forces of Antipater and Craterus and the forces of a coalition of cities including Athens...
supreme command in possession of Antipater. He sailed with his Cilician navy to Greece and led troops at the BattleofCrannon in August 322 BC. When Antigonus...
or Crannon (Κραννών) was a town and polis (city-state) of Pelasgiotis, in ancient Thessaly, situated southwest of Larissa, and at the distance of 100...
September 5 – Craterus arrives to defeat the Athenians in the Battle of Crannon. This battle marks a complete victory for Antipater in the Lamian War. The Athenian...
south to fight a final, decisive battle against the southern Greeks. Antipater defeated them at the BattleofCrannon in 322 BC, with Craterus' help, and...
until Craterus's arrival with a fleet to defeat the Athenians at the BattleofCrannon on September 5, 322 BC. For a time, this brought an end to any resistance...
the subsequent battleof Echinades, which most scholars place between Amorgos and the defeat of the allies on land at the BattleofCrannon in August. These...
of Crannon on September 5, 322 BC by Craterus and his fleet. At this time, Peithon suppressed a revolt of Greek settlers in the eastern parts of the...
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September 5 – Craterus arrives to defeat the Athenians in the Battle of Crannon. This battle marks a complete victory for Antipater in the Lamian War. The Athenian...
Archias was sent in 322, after the BattleofCrannon, to apprehend the anti-Macedonian orators whom Antipater had demanded of the Athenians, and who had fled...
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held a place in their estimation second only to Leosthenes. At the BattleofCrannon (322 BC), he and Antiphilus the Athenian, were defeated by Antipater...
whose surrender was demanded by Antipater after his victory at the BattleofCrannon. To escape the fate that awaited him, he fled from Athens to Aegina...
local crops to feed his troops. He moved from the north of Larissa to its south-east (to Crannon, modern Krannonas) for this purpose. Then he moved northwards...
the territory of Krannonas, at a place called Palealarissa, is the site of the ancient city ofCrannon, the site of the decisive battleof the Lamian War...
skirmishes with pursuing Romans. The Romans moved to Crannon (modern Krannonas, to the south-east of Larissa) to reap more corn. They saw Perseus’ cavalry...
Antiphilus. The final battle took place at Crannon on 6 August 322. Although the Thessalian cavalry had the upper hand in the horse battle, the Greek infantry...
Larissa, as well as in Crannon, which had also come over to him. But once the bulk of the Macedonian army had retired, the states of Thessaly feared the...
University, 1921, p67 "Marble votive relief of Hecate by Crannon, 400BCE". The British Museum. "page 21 (image of Hecate attended by a dog)". timerift.net...
Aleuadae of Larissa or the Scopads ofCrannon. In the summer of 480 BC, the Persians invaded Thessaly. The Greek army that guarded the Vale of Tempe was...
Craterus brought a large army over from Asia, and the Greeks were defeated at Crannon, also in 322 BC. Antipater soon approached Athens. Demades, who was another...
important were the Aleuadae of Larissa, the Echecratidae of Pharsalus, and the Scopadae ofCrannon. Their clan chiefs were often called basileis ("kings")...
invaded the territory of Lysimachus in Asia Minor. In 281 BC, Lysimachus crossed the Hellespont into Lydia and at the decisive Battleof Corupedium was killed...
Aleuadae were the Scopadae ofCrannon, the remains of which are about 14 miles south west. Larissa was the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along...