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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
  • Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) - Siege by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix during the First Mithridatic War
  • Sack of Athens by the Heruli in 267 AD
  • Sack of Athens by the Visigoths in 396 AD
  • Sack of Athens during the Slavic incursions in 582 AD
  • Siege of the Acropolis (1402–03) by Antonio I Acciaioli against Venice
  • Siege of the Acropolis (1456–58) by the Ottomans against the Latin Duchy of Athens
  • Siege of the Acropolis (1687) by the Venetians against the Ottomans, during the Morean War
  • Siege of the Acropolis (1821–22) by the Greeks against the Ottomans, during the Greek War of Independence
  • Siege of the Acropolis (1826–27) by the Ottomans against the Greeks, during the Greek War of Independence

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Siege of Athens

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Acropolis Siege of Athens (404 BC) - Last battle in the Peloponnesian War Siege of Athens (287 BC) - Siege by Demetrius I of Macedon Siege of Athens and Piraeus...

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Attic War

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the portion of the city where the Amazons had camped bear many Amazonian hallmarks, names and graves. Once the Amazons set siege on Athens, both sides...

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Siege of Melos

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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...

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First Mithridatic War

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Memnon (22.11). Athens, nevertheless, remained loyal to Mithridates, despite a bitter siege throughout the winter of 87/6. Sulla captured Athens on March 1...

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Timeline of ancient Greece

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Alcibiades for Athens. 408 The 3 poleis of Rodos unite and build a new capital called Rodos 408 Athens besieges Paleopoli 408 Athens abandons Siege of Abydos...

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Sack of Athens

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AD) by the Heruli Siege of Athens (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sack of Athens. If an internal link...

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Acropolis of Athens

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The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli...

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Achaemenid destruction of Athens

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The Achaemenid destruction of Athens was carried out by the Achaemenid Army of Xerxes I during the Second Persian invasion of Greece, and occurred in two...

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History of Athens

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Historical affiliations Kingdom of Athens 1556 BC–1068 BC City-state of Athens 1068 BC–322 BC Hellenic League 338 BC–322 BC Kingdom of Macedonia 322 BC–148 BC...

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Aristotle of Athens

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Lysander during the siege of Athens. Plato introduces him as one of the persons in the Parmenides and as a very young man at the time of the dialogue. There...

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Peloponnesian War

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was anxious not to face the judgment of the Assembly. Facing starvation and disease from the prolonged siege, Athens surrendered in 404 BC, and its allies...

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Byzantium

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Sparta's strategy for cutting off grain supplies to Athens during their siege of Athens, Sparta took control of the city in 411 BC, to bring the Athenians into...

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List of sieges

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follows. Siege of Aratta (c. 2600 BC) Siege of Uruk (c. 2580 BC) Siege of Qabra (1780 BC) Siege of Hiritum (1764 BC) Siege of Larsa (1763 BC) Siege of Avaris...

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Battle of Thebes

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He had been busy with the siege of Pelium and a rumour had reached them that he had died during the course of this siege. Demosthenes, a prominent Athenian...

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Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia

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by Sulla during his siege of Athens in 86 BC. An inscription from the site reads: Those appointed by him for the construction of the Odeion, Gaius and...

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Hermes

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in the Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC). As Greek culture and influence spread following the conquests of Alexander the Great, a period of syncretism...

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1st century BC

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Octavius 86 BC: Siege of Athens ends with Roman conquest of Athens. 86 BC: the death of the regent of China Jin Midi unleashes the rivalry of his co-regents...

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Long Walls

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still standing at the beginning of the 1st century BC. However, during the First Mithridatic War, the Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC) was won by...

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Siege of Perinthus

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Philip started the siege of Olynthus. Olynthus was formerly allied with Macedonia but then had later switched their allegiance to Athens. In 345 BC, Philip...

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List of battles before 301

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Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Roman battles Sherman Storytelling:...

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Asiatic Vespers

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Sulla's men finally arrived to conduct a siege of Athens, all mainland Greece had rallied to the Roman cause. A series of conflicts known as the Mithridatic...

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List of Roman external wars and battles

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Lucius Cassius. 87–86 BC – Siege of Athens and Piraeus – Sulla takes Athens, which had sided with Mithridates. 86 BC – Battle of Tenedos – Lucullus defeats...

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Aegleis

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Αἰγληίς) was a daughter of Hyacinthus who had emigrated from Lacedaemon to Athens. During the siege of Athens by Minos, in the reign of Aegeus, she was with...

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Wars of the Diadochi

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and the Aetolian League, raised the siege of Athens and drove Cassander's forces from central Greece. In the spring of 303, Demetrius marched his army into...

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