The Battle of Amphipolis was fought in 422 BC during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. It was the culmination of events that began in 424...
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Amphipolis (Greek: Αμφίπολη, romanized: Amfipoli; Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίπολις, romanized: Amphipolis) was an important ancient Greek polis (city), and later...
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Brasidas (category Ancient Amphipolis)
of the Peloponnesian War. He died during the Second Battle of Amphipolis while winning one of his most spectacular victories. Brasidas was the son of...
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Cleon (category Ancient Greeks killed in battle)
at the Battle of Amphipolis. Brasidas also died at Amphipolis and their deaths removed the chief obstacles to peace. Thus, in 421 BC the peace of Nicias...
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general Brasidas captured Amphipolis. In the same year, the Athenians suffered a major defeat in Boeotia at the Battle of Delium, and in 422 BC, they...
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town of Amphipolis in Macedonia. However, through skillful generalship by Brasidas, the Spartans rout the Athenians in the Battle of Amphipolis. Both...
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again a target for the author's wit, even though he had died in the Battle of Amphipolis just a few months earlier. Short summary: Trygaeus, a middle-aged...
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Socrates (category Ancient Greek philosophers of mind)
BC, the Athenians had been crushed by Spartans at the decisive naval Battle of Aegospotami, and subsequently, the Spartans laid siege to Athens. They...
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in the battle of Amphipolis. Later, during the Peloponnesian War, Stagira sided with Sparta against the Athenians. In 348 BC, Philip II of Macedon occupied...
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Demagogue (section History and definition of the word)
counterpart Brasidas were killed at the Battle of Amphipolis, enabling a restoration of peace that lasted until the outbreak of the Second Peloponnesian War.[citation...
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