Ionian Revolt - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Ionian Revolt: Encyclopedia Ii - Ionian Revolt - The Revolt Of Naxos
In 502 BC, the people of Naxos, an island in the Aegean Sea controlled by the Persian Empire, revolted. The former rulers of Naxos appeal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abdera, Thrace: Encyclopedia - Abdera, Thrace
Abdera was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos. Its mythical foundation was attributed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anaxagoras: Encyclopedia - Anaxagoras
Anaxagoras (c. 500 BCE–428 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who was likely born about 500 BCE (Apollodorus ap. Diog. Laert. ii...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 500s Bc: Encyclopedia - 500s Bc
Centuries: 7th century BC - 6th century BC - 5th century BC Decades: 550s BC - 540s BC - 530s BC - 520s BC - 510s BC - 500s BC - 490s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia - History Of Athens
The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years. It was the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Marathon: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Marathon
The Battle of Marathon (490 BC) was the culmination of King Darius I of Persia's first major attempt to conquer the remainder of the Gree...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abdera Thrace: Encyclopedia - Abdera Thrace
Abdera was a town on the coast of Thrace near the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos. Its mythical foundation was attributed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Marathon: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Marathon - Background
Hippias, tyrant of Athens, had been expelled in 510 BC by his people, with the assistance of Cleomenes I, King of Sparta. He fled to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Persians: Encyclopedia Ii - The Persians - Summary
The Persians takes place in Susa, the capital of Persia, and opens with the chorus (representing Persian nobles) and Queen Mother Atossa ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thasos: Encyclopedia Ii - Thasos - History
The island was colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines; they founded a temple of Heracles, which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 5th Century Bce
The beginning of the 5th century saw Sparta at the height of her power, though her prestige must have suffered in the fruitless attempts ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Naxos Island: Encyclopedia Ii - Naxos Island - Mythic Naxos
Homer mentions "Dia"; literally the sacred island "of the Goddess". Karl Kerenyi, speaking for the ancient Greeks, explains: "This name,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greco-persian Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - Greco-persian Wars - Origins
At the end of the 6th century BC, Darius the Great ruled over an immense realm, from western India to eastern Europe. In 513 BC Darius, f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phocaea: Encyclopedia Ii - Phocaea - History
The ancient Greek geographer Pausanias, says that Phocaea was founded by Phocians under Athenian leadership, on land given to them by the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Society
The distinguishing features of ancient Greek society were the division between free and slave, the differing roles of men and women, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ionia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ionia - Geography
The cities called Ionian in historical times were twelve in number, an arrangement copied as it was supposed from the constitution of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Athens - Origins And Setting
The name of Athens in Ancient Greek was Athḗnai (Ἀθῆναι, IPA /ʔa.ˈtʰɛː.nai/, pronounced roughly At-heh-nigh). This is a pl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greco-persian Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - Greco-persian Wars - The Greek Counterattack
Encouraged by Xerxes' failures, the Greeks of Asias and the islands revolted again. In 478, a fleet under Pausanias captured Byzantium an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 4th Century Bce
The fall of Athens left Sparta once again supreme in the Greek world and demonstrated clearly its total unfitness for rule. Everywhere de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 3rd Century Bce
Twenty-two years later the city was attacked by an immense force under Pyrrhus, but Spartan bravery had not died out and the formidable e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - Intervention Of Rome
Nonetheless, a vigorous struggle was maintained with the Achaean League and with Macedon until the Romans, after the conclusion of their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - Medieval Sparta
In CE 406 Alaric destroyed the city, and at a later period Laconia was invaded and settled by Slavonic tribes, especially the Melings and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The 6th Century Bce
Early in the 6th century the Spartan kings Leon and Agasicles made a vigorous attack on Tegea, the most powerful of the Arcadian cities, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - The Expansion Of Sparta
We cannot trace in detail the process by which Sparta subjugated the whole of Laconia, but apparently the first step, taken in the reign ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greco-persian Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - Greco-persian Wars - Xerxes' Invasion
In 480, Darius' successor Xerxes I mounted a massive expedition, consisting of perhaps 60,000-120,000 soldiers and 1,000 ships, although ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The immediate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Sparta: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Sparta - Prehistoric Period
Tradition relates that Sparta was founded by Lacedaemon, son of Zeus and Taygete, who called the city after his wife, the daughter of Eur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ionia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ionia - History
The first event in the history of Ionia of which we have any trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Athens - Modern Athens
Athens was chosen as the Greek capital for historical and sentimental reasons, not because it was a functioning city: there are few build...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Origins
The Greeks are believed to have migrated southward into the Balkan peninsula in several waves beginning in the late 3rd millennium BC, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Hellas
In the 8th century BC Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. Literacy had been ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Social And Political Conflict
The Greek cities were originally monarchies, although many of them were very small and the term "King" (basileus) for their rulers is mis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Athens - Ottoman Athens
Finally, in 1458, Athens fell to the Ottoman Empire. The city's population declined and by the 17th century it was a mere village. Great ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Athens - Byzantine Athens
Although the Byzantines retained control of the Aegean and its islands during this period, direct control did not extend far beyond the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Athens - Early History
The Acropolis of Athens was inhabited from Neolithic times. By 1400 BC Athens had become a powerful centre of the Mycenaean civilization....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Athens - Reform And Democracy
The reforms of Solon dealt with both economic and political issues. The economic power of the Eupatridae was reduced by abolishing slaver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Athens - Classical Athens
Prior to the rise of Athens, the city of Sparta considered itself the leader of the Greeks, or hegemon. In 500 BC Athens sent troops to a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ionia: Encyclopedia Ii - Ionia - Legacy
Ionia has laid the world under its debt not only by giving birth to a long roll of distinguished men of letters and science (see Ionian S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Peloponnesian War
In 431 BC war broke out again between Athens and Sparta and its allies. The proximate cause was a dispute between Corinth and one of its ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Marathon: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Marathon - Battle
On the ninth day (either 12 September or possibly 12 August 490 BC reckoned in the proleptic Julian calendar) it became known to the Athe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Marathon: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Marathon - Aftermath
As soon as Datis had put to sea, the Athenians marched to Athens. They arrived in time to prevent Artaphernes from securing a landing. Se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Dominance Of Athens
The Persian Wars ushered in a century of Athenian dominance of Greek affairs. Athens was the unchallenged master of the sea, and also the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Persian Wars
In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey) the Greek cities, which included great centres such as Miletus and Halicarnassus, were unabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Conquests Of Alexander
Philip was succeeded by his 20-year-old son Alexander, who immediately set out to carry out his father's plans. He travelled to Corinth w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - Spartan And Theban Dominance
The end of the Peloponnesian War left Sparta the master of Greece, but the narrow outlook of the Spartan warrior elite did not suit them ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Greece - The Rise Of Macedon
The Kingdom of Macedon was formed in the 7th century BC out of northern Greek tribes. They played little part in Greek politics before th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ionian Revolt: Encyclopedia Ii - Ionian Revolt - The Sack Of Sardis
An Athenian and Eretian fleet sailed Athenian troops to Ephesus. There they joined with a force of Ionians and marched upon Artaphernes' ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ionian Revolt: Encyclopedia Ii - Ionian Revolt - The Ionian Revolt
With the failure of his attempt to intervene in Naxos, Aristagoras found himself in dire straits: unable to repay Artaphernes, he had ali...   » Read the article