Battle between Athens and Boeotian city-states (457 BC)
Battle of Oenophyta
Part of the First Peloponnesian War
Date
457 BC
Location
Oenophyta
Result
Athenian victory
Belligerents
Athens
Boeotian city-states
Commanders and leaders
Myronides
Unknown
Strength
Unknown
Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown
100 wealthy hostages taken
Unknown
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First Peloponnesian War
Aegina
Tanagra
Oenophyta
Second Sacred War
Coronea
The Battle of Oenophyta took place between Athens and the Boeotian city-states in 457 BC during the First Peloponnesian War.[1]
In this period between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, alliances and leagues sprang up and collapsed, although there was very little prolonged warfare. In 457 BC Athens, the leader of the Delian League, came into conflict with Corinth and their ally Sparta (leader of the Peloponnesian League) over Megara; 62 days prior to the Battle of Oenophyta,[2] the Athenians were defeated at the Battle of Tanagra by Sparta, but Sparta had lost so many men that they could not take advantage of their victory.
The Athenians, who had 14,000 men at Tanagra, regrouped after that battle and marched into Boeotia. At Oenophyta, led by Myronides they defeated the Boeotians, and then destroyed the walls of Tanagra and ravaged Locrida and Phocis. Their victory at Oenophyta was quickly followed by the surrender of Aegina, and the completion of the construction of the Long Walls to the Athenian port of Piraeus (an action opposed by Sparta).[2]
Athens remained in control of Boeotia until 447 BC, when they were defeated at the Battle of Coronea.[3]
^Luginbill, Robert D. (2014). "The Battle of Oinoe, the Painting in the Stoa Poikile, and Thucydides' Silence". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 63 (3): 278–292. doi:10.25162/historia-2014-0015. ISSN 0018-2311. JSTOR 24432809. S2CID 191716294.
^ abThucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 1.108.
^Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. 1.113.
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