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Mytilenean revolt, the Glossary

The Mytilenean revolt was an incident in the Peloponnesian War in which the city of Mytilene attempted to unify the island of Lesbos under its control and revolt from the Athenian Empire.^[1]

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Alcidas

Alcidas (Ἀλκίδας) was a Spartan navarch during the Peloponnesian War.

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Ancient Elis

Elis or Eleia (Ilida, Ēlis; Elean: Ϝᾶλις, ethnonym: Ϝᾱλείοι) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis.

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Antissa

Antissa (Ἄντισσα) was a city of the island Lesbos (Lesvos), near to Cape Sigrium, the western point of Lesbos.

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Athenian democracy

Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Boeotia

Boeotia, sometimes Latinized as Boiotia or Beotia (Βοιωτία; modern:; ancient) is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Caria

Caria (from Greek: Καρία, Karia; Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia.

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Claros

Claros (Κλάρος, Klaros; Clarus) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia.

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Cleon

Cleon (Κλέων ΚλεαινέτουΚυδαθηναιεύς,; died 422 BC) was an Athenian general during the Peloponnesian War.

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Cleruchy

A cleruchy (klēroukhia) in Classical Greece, was a specialized type of colony established by Athens.

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The Delian League was a confederacy of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, founded in 478 BC under the leadership (hegemony) of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the Battle of Plataea at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece.

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Delos

Delos (Δήλος; Δῆλος, Δᾶλος), is a small Greek island near Mykonos, close to the centre of the Cyclades archipelago.

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Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

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Diodotus (son of Eucrates)

Diodotus (Διόδοτος), son of Eucrates, was an opponent to the proposal of Cleon – leader of the radical, imperialist faction in Athens – in 427 BC to kill all adult Mytilenean males and to enslave their women and children after the defeat of Mytilene (see also Mytilenean revolt).

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Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan (May 1, 1932August 6, 2021) was a Lithuanian-born American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece.

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Ephesus

Ephesus (Éphesos; Efes; may ultimately derive from Apaša) was a city in Ancient Greece on the coast of Ionia, southwest of present-day Selçuk in İzmir Province, Turkey.

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Erythrae

Erythrae or Erythrai (Ἐρυθραί) later Litri, was one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor, situated 22 km north-east of the port of Cyssus (modern name: Çeşme), on a small peninsula stretching into the Bay of Erythrae, at an equal distance from the mountains Mimas and Corycus, and directly opposite the island of Chios.

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G. E. M. de Ste. Croix

Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste.

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Gulf of Corinth

The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf (Korinthiakós Kólpos) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece.

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Hoplite

Hoplites (hoplîtai) were citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields.

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Investment (military)

Investment is the military process of surrounding an enemy fort (or town) with armed forces to prevent entry or escape.

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Ionia

Ionia was an ancient region on the western coast of Anatolia, to the south of present-day İzmir, Turkey.

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Isthmus of Corinth

The Isthmus of Corinth (Greek: Ισθμός της Κορίνθου) is the narrow land bridge which connects the Peloponnese peninsula with the rest of the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.

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Lesbos

Lesbos or Lesvos (Lésvos) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.

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Metic

In ancient Greece, a metic (Ancient Greek:,: from,, indicating change, and, 'dwelling') was a resident of Athens and some other cities who was a citizen of another polis.

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Mithymna

Mithymna (Μήθυμνα, also sometimes spelled Methymna) is a town and former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece.

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Mytilene

Mytilene (Mytilíni) is the capital of the Greek island of Lesbos, and its port.

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Mytilenean Debate

The Mytilenean Debate (also spelled "Mytilenaean Debate") was an Athenian Assembly concerning reprisals against the city-state of Mytilene, which had attempted unsuccessfully to revolt against Athenian hegemony and gain control over Lesbos during the Peloponnesian War. Mytilenean revolt and Mytilenean Debate are 427 BC.

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Navarch

Navarch (ναύαρχος) is an Anglicisation of a Greek word meaning "leader of the ships", which in some states became the title of an office equivalent to that of a modern admiral.

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Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.

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Olympia, Greece

Olympia (Ολυμπία; Ὀλυμπία), officially Archaia Olympia (Αρχαία Ολυμπία), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name.

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Paralus (ship)

The Paralus or Paralos (Πάραλος, "sea-side"; named after a mythological son of Poseidon), was an Athenian sacred ship and a messenger trireme of the Athenian navy during the late 5th century BC.

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Peloponnesian League

The Peloponnesian League was an alliance of ancient Greek city-states, dominated by Sparta and centred on the Peloponnese, which lasted from c.550 to 366 BC.

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Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War (translit) (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world. Mytilenean revolt and Peloponnesian War are 420s BC conflicts.

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Pericles

Pericles (Περικλῆς; – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.

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Plague of Athens

The Plague of Athens (Λοιμὸς τῶν Ἀθηνῶν) was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year (430 BC) of the Peloponnesian War when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach.

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Plataea

Plataea (Πλάταια, Plátaia) was an ancient Greek city-state situated in Boeotia near the frontier with Attica at the foot of Mt.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Prytaneis

The prytaneis (πρυτάνεις; sing.: πρύτανις prytanis) were the executives of the boule of ancient Athens.

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Richard Crawley

Richard Crawley (26 December 1840 – 30 March 1893) was a Welsh writer and academic, best known for his translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.

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Salaminia

The Salaminia (Σαλαμινία) was, along with Paralos, one of the two sacred triremes of the Athenian navy during the late 5th century BC.

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Sicilian Expedition

The Sicilian Expedition was an Athenian military expedition to Sicily, which took place from 415–413 BC during the Peloponnesian War between Athens on one side and Sparta, Syracuse and Corinth on the other. Mytilenean revolt and Sicilian Expedition are Battles of the Peloponnesian War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytilenean_revolt

Also known as Battle of Mytilene (427 BC).

Mytilenean revolt, the Glossary

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See also

420s BC conflicts

427 BC

5th-century BC rebellions

Battles of the Peloponnesian War

Rebellions against the Athenian Empire

References