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Demosthenes, whose credit with the Assembly must …
Years: 425BCE - 425BCE
Demosthenes, whose credit with the Assembly must now be excellent, is in 425 authorized to use the Athenian fleet for operations around the Peloponnese.
He occupies and fortifies the remote promontory of Pylos in Messenia and, while the rest of the flotilla sails on to Sicily, remains with five ships at the harbor of the peninsula at Pylos.
Here, he manages to resist attacks by the Spartans, …
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- Greece, classical
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- Boeotian League
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
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- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Archidamian War
- Pylos, Battle of
- Sphacteria, Battle of
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Years: 425BCE - 425BCE
Locations
People
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- Greece, classical
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Boeotian League
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Archidamian War
- Pylos, Battle of
- Sphacteria, Battle of
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
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