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Name: Korinthos

Type: Polity

Start: 849 BC

End: 197 BC

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Was an Ancient Greek Polis (city-state) in central Greece.

Establishment


  • January 849 BC: Korinthos, an ancient greek polis in central Greece, was founded in the year 900 BC.
  • Chronology


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    1. Peloponnesian War


    Was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.

  • January 424 BC: In 425 BC, the army of Acarnania and the Athenians of Naupatto led an expedition against the city of Anactorio and managed to conquer it following a betrayal. They expelled the Corinthians and the city was occupied by the Acarnanians.

  • 2. Corinthian War


    Was a conflict in ancient Greece which pitted Sparta against a coalition of city-states comprising Thebes, Athens, Corinth and Argos, backed by the Achaemenid Empire.

  • January 392 BC: The Spartans and exiles succeeded in seizing Lechaeum.
  • January 390 BC: Battle of Lechaeum: the Athenian general Iphicrates defeated a Spartan hoplite regiment operating near Corinth and occupied Lechaeum (the port of Corinth).
  • January 390 BC: After the victory, an Argive army came to Corinth, and, seizing the acropolis, effected the merger of Argos and Corinth.

  • 3. Wars of the Rise of Macedon


    Expansion of Macedonia under King Philip II.

    3.1.Philip II's campaign in Greece (Fourth Sacred War)

    Was the military campaign of Macedonia king Philip II in Greece during the Fourth Sacred War.

  • August 338 BC: Following the victory of Philip II in the Battle of Chaeronea, it first entered the Macedonian area of ​​influence.

  • 4. Macedonian Wars


    Were a seris of conflicts between the Roman Republic and Antigonid Macedonia over control of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean Basin. .

    4.1.First Macedonian War

    Was a war fought by Rome, allied (after 211 BC) with the Aetolian League and Attalus I of Pergamon, against Philip V of Macedon, contemporaneously with the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) against Carthage. There were no decisive engagements, and the war ended in a stalemate.

    4.1.1.Campaign of Laevinus in Greece

    Was a Roman military campaign in Greece led by Marcus Valerius Laevinus during the first Macedonian War.

  • January 209 BC: Corinth was assaulted by the Romans via sea and by the Aetolians via land. The assault from the sea was better managed as it was carried out by the Roman fleet, armed with various types of siege engines and war machines. In a few days, the city surrendered and handed itself over to the Aetolians. According to the agreement, the spoils of war went to the Romans.
  • January 204 BC: After another season of fighting, in 206 BC, the members of the Aetolian League surrendered and, without the consent of Rome, signed a separate peace on the terms imposed on them by Philip of Macedon. With no more allies in all of Greece, but having nonetheless achieved their objective of preventing Philip from helping Hannibal, the Romans were now willing to sign peace. A treaty was signed at Phoenix in 205 BC, the so-called Peace of Phoenix, thus ending the First Macedonian War.

  • 5. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 431 BC: In 432 BC, the Corinthians deceived the entire city and settled settlers there.

  • January 242 BC: Corinth joined the Achean League (243 BC).

  • January 223 BC: Corinth left the Achean League (224 BC).

  • Disestablishment


  • January 196 BC: Corinth joined again the Achean League (197 BC).
  • Selected Sources


  • Piganiol, A. (1989): Le conquiste dei romani, Milan (Italy), p. 237
  • Polybius: The Histories, IX, 39
  • Titus Livius: Ab Urbe Condita, XXVI, 26.1-4
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