The Lamian War, or the Hellenic War, (323–322 BC) was an unsuccessful attempt by Athens and a large coalition of Greek states to end the hegemony of Macedonia over Greece just after the death of Alexander the Great. It was the last time Athens played a significant role as an independent power.
War was simmering in Greece after Alexander the Great issued the Exiles' Decree (in 324 BC), which ordered the Greek states to return all the people they had forced into exile. This decree meant that Athens had to surrender the island of Samos, colonised by Athenian clerurchs since 365 BC, while the Aetolian League had to leave Oiniadai, taken c.330 BC. Once the death of Alexander became known in June 323, most states in mainland Greece revolted and founded the Hellenic League, recalling the alliance forged during the Persian Wars; this time with Macedonia in the role of the foreign invader. The Greeks were initially successful under their Athenian commander in chief Leosthenes, who managed to besiege Antipater, the Macedonian general in Europe, in the city of Lamia, which gave its name to the war. At this point however, the arrival of a large Macedonian fleet commanded by Cleitus the White from the Levant turned the tide in favour of Macedonia. Even though Athens had more ships than Macedonia, it did not have enough crews to man them all and its overextended navy was defeated off the Echinades island and Amorgos.
On land, the Greeks lifted the siege of Lamia with the arrival of Macedonian reinforcements from Asia. At the head of a large merged army, Antipater defeated the Greeks in Thessaly at the battle of Krannon, after which he received the surrender of every city state in central Greece. Faced with the prospect of a naval blockade and a land invasion, Athens capitulated. It had to give up its navy, host a Macedonian garrison on its soil, lose its possessions outside Attica, and even trade its democracy for an oligarchic regime. As a symbol of the event, the famous orator Demosthenes committed suicide to avoid his capture by the Macedonians. Athens never played a leading role again in Greece after the Lamian War.
While Antipater was turning his forces west to deal with the Aetolian League, the last member of the Greek alliance still fighting, he was called back to Asia by the beginning of the Wars of the Diadochi between Alexander's generals. The Aetolian League therefore escaped unscathed and appear to be the real winner of the war, because Athens bore most of the fight, and the league remained mostly in place. The Aetolian League then became one of the most important states in Greece during the Hellenistic era.
The LamianWar, or the Hellenic War, (323–322 BC) was an unsuccessful attempt by Athens and a large coalition of Greek states to end the hegemony of Macedonia...
The news of Alexander's death inspired a revolt in Greece, known as the LamianWar. Athens and other cities formed a coalition and besieged Antipater in...
shared the charge of strategos with Phocion. This was the beginning of the LamianWar although, as always, Phocion opposed it. Leosthenes inquired about which...
interruptions remained in place for 180 years, until 322 BC (aftermath of LamianWar). The peak of Athenian hegemony was achieved in the 440s to 430s BC, known...
Antipater in control of Greece. Antipater faced wars with Athens, Aetolia, and Thessaly that made up the LamianWar, in which southern Greeks attempted to re-assert...
Europe when Antipater requested assistance from several commanders in the Lamianwar, but leaving the supreme command in possession of Antipater. He sailed...
and Craterus (the satrap of Cilicia who had been in Greece fighting the Lamianwar) invaded Anatolia. The rebels were supported by Lysimachus, the satrap...
the Great had died in 323 BC, but were defeated within a year in the LamianWar. Meanwhile, a struggle for power broke out among Alexander's generals...
coalition of Greek states led by Athens against Macedonia during the Lamianwar, between 323 and 322 BCE The association of Greeks under Antigonus and...
Athens joined Aetolia and Thessaly in facing their power, known as the LamianWar. Craterus fell in a battle against Eumenes in 320 BC, leaving Antipater...
family. The news of Alexander's death caused the Greeks to rebel in the LamianWar. Craterus and Antipater defeated the rebellion in 322 BC. Despite his...
dates from this year instead of from the common era. In 322 BCE, the LamianWar ended with the death of Demosthenes and Athenians were made to dissolve...
would take over the power in Greece. The League was dissolved after the LamianWar in 322 BC. Following the victory of Demetrius I Poliorcetes at the Battle...
interruptions remained in place for 180 years, until 322 BC (aftermath of LamianWar). The peak of Athenian hegemony was achieved in the 440s to 430s BC, known...
of Crannon. This battle marks a complete victory for Antipater in the LamianWar. The Athenian orator and diplomat, Demades, regains his citizenship so...
Tyrants at the Battle of Munychia. After Athens being defeated in the Lamianwar (323–322 BC), a Macedonian garrison was installed at Munichia. In Antiquity...
Spartan minds when the general revolt against Macedonian rule known as the LamianWar broke out – hence Sparta stayed neutral. Even during its decline, Sparta...
with 1,500 cavalry to relieve Antipater during the siege in Lamia (see LamianWar). He intervened probably with the ambition to usurp Antipater's power...
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including Athens and the Aetolian League, was the decisive battle of the LamianWar. The Macedonian victory, though militarily unspectacular, convinced the...
the LamianWar. Polyperchon defeated the Thessalian cavalry of Menon, which was hitherto considered practically invincible. Following the First War of...
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he reappears as commander of the Macedonian fleet for Antipater in the LamianWar in 323 BC, and defeated the Athenian admiral, Euetion, in the Battle of...
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