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    The siege of Sardis was the first major engagement of the Ionian Revolt. An allied Greek army launched an attack on the Persian satrapal capital of Sardis...
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    place Sardis and Ephesus in 498 BC. Herodotus next describes the spread of the revolt (thus also in 498 BC), and says that the Cypriots had one year of freedom...
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    The siege of Sardis (547/546 BC) was the last decisive conflict after the Battle of Thymbra, which was fought between the forces of Croesus of Lydia and...
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  • between the forces of Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus the Great Siege of Sardis (498 BC) between the people of Sardis and an alliance of Greeks from Ionia,...
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    Artaphernes (category 5th-century BC Iranian people)
    Ionian city of Ephesus. There they were joined by a force of Ionians and they marched upon Sardis, leading to the Siege of Sardis (498 BC). Artaphernes...
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    and Persians alike. In 498 BC, supported by troops from Athens and Eretria, the Ionians marched on, captured, and burnt Sardis. However, on their return...
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    invasion of Greece, during the Greco-Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. The...
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    Greece and Persia. 499 BC: Sardis sacked by Athenian and Ionian troops. 498 BC: Leontini subjugated by Hippocrates of Gela. 498 BC: Alexander I succeeds...
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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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    and since Thucydides says that the siege ended in its third year, the siege of Thasos therefore dates to c. 465–463 BC. Similarly, the anonymous scholiast...
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    The Battle of Ephesus took place in 498 BC between Persian and Greek forces during the Ionian revolt. The Persians defeated the Greek army and compelled...
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  • c. 430 BC) Zeno of Elea, Greek philosopher (d. c. 430 BC) 498 BC Amyntas I, king of Macedonia (b. c. 540 BC) Cleander, tyrant of Gela 497 BC Onesilus...
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    Empire 498 Amathos is sieged by Cyprus 498 Cleander is overthrown by Hippocrates 498 Hippocrates vassalized Leontini and puts Aenesidemus as tyrant 498 Licodia...
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    polymath (b. 498 BC) 407 BC Hermocrates, leader of the moderate democrats of Syracuse 406 BC Euripides, Athenian playwright (b. c. 480 BC) Hannibal Mago...
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    Thermopylae in 191 BC, forcing his retreat to Anatolia, near Sardis. Combining forces with the Romans, Eumenes II (197–159 BC) of Pergamon met Antiochus...
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    The siege of Naxos (499 BC) was a failed attempt by the Milesian tyrant Aristagoras, operating with support from, and in the name of the Persian Empire...
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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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  • Siege of Sardis (498 BC) – 498 BC – Ionian Revolt Battle of Lade – 494 BC – Ionian Revolt Battle of Mycale – 479 BC – Second Persian invasion of Greece...
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    states of Athens and Eretria allowed themselves to be drawn into this conflict by Aristagoras, and during their only campaigning season (498 BC) they contributed...
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  • This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
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    different from that of the later Iranian kings, such as Abbas the Great, king of the Safavid Empire in the 17th-century AD. Starting from 498 BC, Xerxes resided...
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    Aristagoras (category 6th-century BC Greek people)
    497/496 BC, was the leader of the Ionian city of Miletus in the late 6th century BC and early 5th century BC and a key player during the early years of the...
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    states of Athens and Eretria allowed themselves to be drawn into this conflict by Aristagoras, and during their only campaigning season (498 BC) they contributed...
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    2016, p. 125. Alten, Elif (2017). "Revolt of Achaeus Against Antiochus III the Great and the Siege of Sardis, Based on Classical Textual, Epigraphic and...
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    Aristagoras chose to incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king Darius the Great. Initially, in 498 BC, the Ionians went on the offensive...
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    Didyma, an oracle on the coast of Anatolia, south west of Lydian (Luwian) Sardis, in which priests from the lineage of the Branchidae received inspiration...
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    5th century BC), philosopher and originator of Atomism (his association with Miletus is traditional, but disputed) Hippodamus (c. 498 – 408 BC), urban planner...
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  • Aristagoras held firm for a time, despite the loss in the Battle of Ephesus. The burning of Sardis in 498 BCE enraged Darius so much that he swore revenge upon Athens...
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  • Age: Cypro-Archaic period: 750 - 475 BC". ant.david-johnson.co.uk. Retrieved 8 December 2023. "Siege of Amathus, c.498-7". www.historyofwar.org. Retrieved...
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  • religion: Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, Apology of Aristides, Theophilus of Antioch, Tatian, Quadratus, Melito of Sardis, Apollinaris Claudius, Marcus Minucius...
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