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The siege of Sardis, 19th-century engraving The Sardis citadel, seen from the west Cyrus had issued orders for Croesus to be spared, and the latter was hauled a captive before his exulting foe. Cyrus' first intentions to burn Croesus alive on a pyre were soon diverted by the impulse of mercy for a fallen foe and, according to ancient versions ...
The siege of Sardis was the first major engagement of the Ionian Revolt. An allied Greek army launched an attack on the Persian satrapal capital of Sardis but were ultimately repelled by Persian forces, however most of the city was set alight during the siege. Remains of the acropolis of Sardis
The Battle of Thymbra was the decisive battle in the war between Croesus of the Lydian Kingdom and Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire.Cyrus, after he had pursued Croesus into Lydia after the drawn Battle of Pteria, met the remains of Croesus' partially-disbanded army in battle on the plain north of Sardis in December 547 BC.
After the Siege of Sardis (498 BC), the Greeks set fires that burned Sardis to the ground. Aristagoras then attempted to convince other Ionian cities to revolt and visited the Greek mainland in an attempt to find allies. [22] He was successful in convincing Athens and Eretria to provide ships and men. [23]
Remains of the acropolis of Sardis. [39] The burning of Sardis by the Greeks during the Ionian Revolt in 498 BC. In the spring of 498 BC, an Athenian force of twenty triremes, accompanied by five from Eretria, set sail for Ionia. [33] They joined up with the main Ionian force near Ephesus. [40]
Siege of Sardis may refer to: Siege of Sardis (547 BC) , the last decisive conflict after the Battle of Thymbra, which was fought between the forces of Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus the Great Siege of Sardis (498 BC) between the people of Sardis and an alliance of Greeks from Ionia, Athens, and Eretria
This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other Greek colonies (First Greek colonisation, Second Greek colonisation, Greeks in pre-Roman Crimea, Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul, Greeks in Egypt, Greeks in Syria, Greeks in Malta), Greek Kingdoms of Hellenistic period, Indo-Greek Kingdom, Greco ...
There is two different articles about the sieges at sardis, one with no date and one that happened in 498 BC, and before the one with no date, there were two or three sieges in that place, maybe one in the story of Troy. But if Siege of Sardis (498 BC) has a date, why not siege of sardis which was not even the first siege to happen there. And ...