Ionian offensive
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Was a revolt of the Greek cities of Ionia (Asia Minor) against Achaemenid rule.
Chronology
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January 497 BC: Seeing the spread of the Ionians rebellion, the kingdoms of Cyprus also revolted against Persian rule without any outside persuasion. In Cyprus, all the kingdoms had revolted except that of Amathus.
June 498 BC: Artaphernes still held the citadel with a significant force of men. The lower city then caught on fire, Herodotus suggests accidentally, which quickly spread. The Persians in the citadel, being surrounded by a burning city, emerged into the market-place of Sardis, where they fought with the Greeks, forcing them back. The Greeks, demoralised, then retreated from the city, and began to make their way back to Ephesus.
January 497 BC: Despite the defeat at Ephesus, the revolt actually spread further. The Ionians sent men to the Hellespont and Propontis and captured Byzantium and the other nearby cities.
April 497 BC: The Ionians persuaded the Carians to join the rebellion against the Achaemenid Empire.
