Krater Makedonski inflicts a crushing naval defeat on the "HellAsses" in 322 BC
Krater Makedonski
The battle of Amorgos saw the final defeat of Athenian naval power.
After the death of Alexander the Great, the Athenians had seen a chance
to win their independence, and had raised an army and a fleet (Lamian
War). That fleet, under the command of a commander called Euetion, had
been sent to the Hellespont in an attempt to prevent reinforcements
reaching the Macedonians in Greece.
In the first few years after the death of Alexander, his generals kept
alive the illusion of a united empire. In 322 Alexander's military
machine was still intact, and part of it now sprang into action. One of
his generals, Craterus, sent one of his commanders, Cleitus, to take
command of the Macedonian fleet. Cleitus then won a victory over the
Greek fleet at Abydos, driving them away from the Hellespont, but not
destroying the fleet. This victory allowed Macedonian reinforcements to
reach Greece, but the existence of the Athenian fleet prevented Craterus
from shipping a larger army across the Aegean.
By the summer of 322 B.C. the Athenian fleet had been reinforced, and
now contained 200 ships. The two fleets came together again at Amorgos,
sixty miles south west of Samos. Once again Cleitus was victorious, this
time inflicting a crushing defeat. Athens's last great war fleet had
been destroyed.
With control of the sea lost, the Greek cause was doomed. The
Macedonians were able to ship reinforcements to Greece, led by Craterus.
The Greek army was defeated at Crannon, and faced by the prospect of a
siege Athens surrendered.
How to cite this article: Rickard, J (5 June 2007), Battle of Amorgos,
July 322 B.C.,
Spirit of Truth
"Krater Makedonski" <kra...@yahoo.com
> wrote in message news:4a3c47a$0$7111$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
Again a false statement. The Macedonian Greeks fought some
City State Greeks (some even fought with the Macedonian Greeks)
Here a relevant text showing historians recognise that the fight was
no different to earlier fights between City state Greeks themselves:
Bury on the Macedonian Greeks
For fair use only:
"If the chances of another issue to the battle of Chaeronea have been
exaggerated, the significance of that event has been often
misrepresented. The battle of Chaeronea belongs to the same historical
series as the battles of Aegospotami (405 B.C.) and Leuctra (371 B.C.).
As the hegemony or first place among Greek states had passed successively
from Athens to Sparta, and to Thebes, so now it passed to Macedon. The
statement that Greek liberty perished on the plain of Chaeronea is as true
or as false as that it perished on the field of
Leuctra or the strand of the Goat's River. Whenever a Greek state
became supreme, that supremacy entailed the depression of some
states and the dependency or subjection of others. Athens was
reduced to a secondary place by Macedon, and Thebes fared still
worse; but we must not forget what Sparta, in the day of her triumph,
did to Athens, or the more evil things which Thebes proposed."
Spirit of Truth
Panayiotis
"And Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece."
(Strabo VII, Frg. 9 [Loeb, H.L. Jones])
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ADR
Wow, you are reading some history as suggested. Very good. Now,
concentrate on the fact that two armies from Southern Greece and one
from Thrace occupied Macedonia rather easily: The mercenary army of
Demetrius I Poliorketes in 291 BCE (who killed the legitimate king,
Alexander V) and the army of Pyrrhus of Epirus in 286 BCE who was
himself expelled by Lysimachus of Thrace, one of the Successors.
Macedonian power was somewhat restored by Antigonus Gonatas but not
through military actions (he won no major victory) but rather by
clever diplomacy and alliances.