…he himself leads four thousand hoplites to …
Years: 462BCE - 462BCE
…he himself leads four thousand hoplites to Mount Ithome.
However, after an attempt to storm the place fails, the Spartans begin to wonder if they can trust the Athenians not to take the helot side and, retaining their other allies, dismisses Cimon and his contingent on suspicion of “revolutionary tendencies.”
Locations
People
Groups
- Messenians
- Greece, classical
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Messenian War, Third, or Helot revolts
