There was a later battle at Tanagra during the Peloponnesian War; see Battle of Tanagra (426 BC). The Battle of Tanagra was a battle in the Peloponnesian War in 426 BC between Athens and Tanagra.
| Battle of Tanagra | |||||||
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| Athens | Sparta | ||||||
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| Myronides | Nicodemes | ||||||
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| 14,000 [1] | 11,500 [2] | ||||||
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The Battle of Tanagra took place in 457 BC between Athens and Sparta during the so-called First Peloponnesian War. Events By place Persian empire Artaxerxes I decrees that the city government of Jerusalem shall be re-established (see Ezra 7 The Tanager Genus Tangara is often misunderstood to be "Tanagra" The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Myronides was an Athenian general in 458 BCE when he defeated the Corinthians at Megara, and again in 457 BCE when he defeated the Boeotians Events By place Persian empire Artaxerxes I decrees that the city government of Jerusalem shall be re-established (see Ezra 7 Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη The First Peloponnesian War ( 460 BC - circa 445 BC) was fought between Sparta as the leaders of the Peloponnesian League and Sparta's other allies
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Background
Although holding a hegemony over Greece won in the Persian Wars, the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League, by making repeated demands and diplomatic affronts to Athens, made apparent its growing fear of her power. Hegemony (hɨˈdʒɛməni (Amer /hɨˈɡɛməni/ (Brit (ἡγεμονία hēgemonía) is a concept that has been used to describe and explain the dominance of one social The Peloponnesian League was an alliance of states in the Peloponnese in the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
Citing a strategy of denying any future Persian invasion a base from which to operate, Sparta had urged Athens to refrain from rebuilding her walls, as well as other Greek cities. However, suspecting a Spartan ploy and having already begun the work of construction, Athens employed subterfuge to delay the wheels of diplomacy until she could finish them.
In 464 BC, suffering another Helot rebellion and failing to make progress in the siege against their stronghold Ithome, Sparta had asked for Athens' aid along with its other allies. Events By place Greece Sparta suffers the effects of a severe earthquake leading to a large loss of life The helots (in Classical Greek / Heílôtes) were an unfree population group that formed the Mount Ithome ( Greek: Ἰθώμη is a mountain in Messenia, Greece. But after a "considerable force" arrived from Athens under the command of Cimon, Sparta, fearing the "unorthodox" politics of Athens and the possibility of its' supporting the enslaved Helots rather than fighting them, sent the Athenian contingent home while keeping on the rest of her allies. Cimon (in Greek, Κίμων &mdash Kimōn) (510 Athens - 450 BC Citium, Cyprus) was an Athenian Athenian democracy developed in the Greek City-state of Athens The helots (in Classical Greek / Heílôtes) were an unfree population group that formed the
Deeply offended by these insults and increasingly willing to support discord within the Peloponnesian League, Athens took Megara into its protection during its border dispute with the Spartan-allied Corinth, leading to open war with Corinth but not Sparta herself. The Peloponnesian League was an alliance of states in the Peloponnese in the 6th and 5th centuries BC. Megara ( Greek:, "Big Houses" is an ancient city (pop A territorial dispute is a disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more States or over the possession or control of land by one state after it has conquered Corinth, or Korinth ( Greek Κόρινθος ( is a city in Greece.
The battle
When the Phocians made war on the cities of Doris--the traditional homeland of Doric Greeks--the Doric Sparta sent a relief force under the command of Nicodemes, son of Cleombrotus, acting as regent for his under-age nephew, King Pleistoanax. Phocis ( Greek, Modern: Φωκίδα foˈkiða Ancient / Katharevousa: Φωκίς foˈkis is an ancient district and a modern prefecture Doris ( Greek:: Eth, pl,; Latin: Dores Dorienses is small mountainous district in ancient Greece, bounded by Aetolia Cleombrotus (Κλεόμβροτος regent of Sparta between 480 and 479 BC. Pleistoanax (reigned 458 BCE &ndash 409 BCE was an Agiad King of Sparta. An army of 1,500 Spartan hoplites with 10,000 of their allies entered Boeotia and compelled the submission of Phocis. Boeotia, Beotia, or Bœotia ( Greek: Βοιωτία - English biːˈoʊʃiə formerly Cadmeis was a region of Ancient Greece, north of the Phocis ( Greek, Modern: Φωκίδα foˈkiða Ancient / Katharevousa: Φωκίς foˈkis is an ancient district and a modern prefecture
Athens, already contemptuous by Spartan treatment and now suspecting her of negotiating with factions within the city to undermine democracy and prevent the construction of the Long Walls, maneuvered to cut off the Spartan army isolated in Boeotia. Athenian democracy developed in the Greek City-state of Athens Long Walls ( Μακρά Τείχη) in Ancient Greece, were walls built from a city to its port providing a secure connection to the sea even during times of siege
Facing either transport through waters controlled by the Athenian navy or a difficult march through the Geraneia mountain passes held by Athenian soldiers supported from Megara, the Spartans decided to wait either for the opening of a safe route home or an outright Athenian assault. The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. Nearest places Aigosthenes NE Megara and the plain W NW Kakia Skala NW Loutraki NW The geography of Geraneia Megara ( Greek:, "Big Houses" is an ancient city (pop
Meeting the Spartans at Tanagra, Athens fielded "their whole army, supported by 1,000 troops from Argos and by contingents from their other allies, making up altogether a force of 14,000 men. The Tanager Genus Tangara is often misunderstood to be "Tanagra" " Although both sides sustained "great losses," the Spartans were victorious and returned home through the newly opened Isthmus[3]
Aftermath
Two months later, the Athenians regrouped and defeated Thebes at the Battle of Oenophyta and took control of Boeotia, taking down the wall the Spartans had built. The Isthmus of Corinth is the narrow landbridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth The Battle of Oenophyta took place between Athens and the Boeotian City-states in 457 BC during the First Peloponnesian War. With the victory the Athenians also occupied Phocis, the original source of the conflict and the Opuntian Locris. Phocis ( Greek, Modern: Φωκίδα foˈkiða Ancient / Katharevousa: Φωκίς foˈkis is an ancient district and a modern prefecture The Locrians (Λοκροί were an ancient Greek tribe in Greece. [4]
References
- ^ Thucydides (1954). History of the Peloponnesian War. Penguin Classics; Revised edition, 98.
- ^ Thucydides (1954). History of the Peloponnesian War. Penguin Classics; Revised edition, 97.
- ^ Thucydides (1954). History of the Peloponnesian War. Penguin Classics; Revised edition, 98.
- ^ Fine, John VA (1983). The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History. Harvard University Press, 354.
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