Battle of Hysiai (417/416 BC)
Battle of Hysiai
Part of: Peloponnesian War
| date | 417 / v 416th Chr. |
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| place | at Hysiai |
| output | Victory of the Spartans |
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The battle of Hysiai took place in 417/416 BC. Between Sparta and Argos .
After the defeat in the First Battle of Mantineia in 418 BC. The Argives drove away the oligarchs who were friendly to Sparta . These fled to Phleius . The construction of a wall that would connect Argos to the sea began, similar to the wall of Themistocles in Athens .
The Spartan King Agis II gathered an army , reached Argos before the wall could be completed, and destroyed it. Then he went against the frontier fortress Hysiai , conquered and destroyed it and had the free Argives executed. Then he withdrew again. In response, the Argives marched against Phleius and devastated the land.
literature
- Richard Allan Tomlinson: Argos and the Argolid. Routledge, London 2014, ISBN 978-1-138-01993-5 , p. 124.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War 5, 83.