Kotys had already married his daughter to the Athenian general Iphicrates.

In 454 BC, the Athenian general Pericles moved the Delian League's treasury from Delos to Athens, allegedly to keep it safe from Persia.

After four years, however, the Egyptian rebellion was defeated by the Achaemenid general Megabyzus, who captured the greater part of the Athenian forces.

Under the guidance of Miltiades, the Athenian general with the greatest experience of fighting the Persians, the Athenian army marched quickly to block the two exits from the plain of Marathon, and prevent the Persians moving inland.

Miltiades the Younger ( c. 550 – 489 BC ) was tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese and the Athenian commanding general in the Battle of Marathon.

It first prevented the candidate for expulsion being chosen out of immediate anger, although an Athenian general such as Cimon would have not wanted to lose a battle the week before such a second vote.

The Athenian strategy was initially guided by the strategos, or general, Pericles, who advised the Athenians to avoid open battle with the far more numerous and better trained Spartan hoplites, relying instead on the fleet.

Led militarily by a clever new general Demosthenes ( not to be confused with the later Athenian orator Demosthenes ), the Athenians managed some successes as they continued their naval raids on the Peloponnese.

In addition, the fear of a general revolt of helots emboldened by the nearby Athenian presence drove the Spartans to action.

After these battles, the Spartan general Brasidas raised an army of allies and helots and marched the length of Greece to the Athenian colony of Amphipolis in Thrace, which controlled several nearby silver mines ; their product supplied much of the Athenian war fund.

Thucydides was probably connected through family to the Athenian statesman and general Miltiades, and his son Cimon, leaders of the old aristocracy supplanted by the Radical Democrats.

Themistocles ( Greek: ; " Glory of the Law "; c. 524 – 459 BC ), was an Athenian politician and a general.

The Athenian aristocracy, and indeed Greek aristocrats in general, were loath to see one person pre-eminent, and such maneuvers were commonplace.

* 403 BC: Thrasybulus restores the Athenian democracy and grants an almost general amnesty.

* 488 BC — Death of Miltiades, Athenian general

* c. 450 BC — birth of Alcibiades, Athenian general and politician

* The Athenian general Thrasybulus is exiled by the Thirty ( the oligarchy of Athens ), and he retires to Thebes.

Athens ' actions are incited by the speeches of the Athenian general Leosthenes and the Athenian orator Hypereides.

When the Macedonian army approaches Thracian Chersonese ( the Gallipoli Peninsula ), an Athenian general named Diopeithes ravages this district of Thrace, thus inciting Philip's rage for operating too near one of his towns in the Chersonese.

* Timotheus, the son of the Athenian general Conon, is elected strategos of Athens.

However, the Athenian mission led by the Athenian general Laches is unable to offer much help.

** Iphicrates, Athenian general ( approximate date ) ( d. c. 353 BC )

* Iphicrates, Athenian general ( approximate date ) ( d. c. 353 BC )

Despite the Athenians being willing to comply, both Pydna and Potidaea are conquered by the Macedonians ( along with other Athenian strongholds in Thessaly and Chalcidice ) despite being defended by Athenian forces led by general and mercenary commander, Chares, as well as generals Iphicrates and Timotheus.

* Iphicrates, Athenian general ( b. c. 418 BC )

* Iphicrates leads an Athenian expedition which successfully relieves Corcyra of a Spartan siege.

Alexander defeats his enemies with the help of the Athenian general Iphicrates, who has been sailing along the Macedonian coast on the way to recapture Amphipolis.

* The Athenian general, Iphicrates, fails in attempts to recover Amphipolis.

In order to make his position stronger Cotys married his daughter to the Athenian general Iphicrates who soon became the second person in command after the king.

Yet Iphicrates, with the help of Charidemus, bribed the Athenian military and naval commanders to suppress the rebellion.

While Agesilaus was in camp preparing to sell off his spoils, the Athenian general Iphicrates, with a force composed almost entirely of light troops and peltasts ( javelin throwers ), won a decisive victory against the Spartan regiment that had been stationed at Lechaeum in the Battle of Lechaeum.

The Athenian general Iphicrates destroyed a Spartan phalanx in the Battle of Lechaeum in 390 BCE, using mostly peltasts.

Alexander defeated his enemies with the help of the Athenian general Iphicrates, who had been sailing along the Macedonian coast on the way to recapture Amphipolis.

* In 373 BC, Pharnabazus, satrap of Phrygia, and Iphicrates, the commander of the Athenian armament, appeared before Pelusium, but retired without attacking it, Nectanebo I, king of Egypt, having added to its former defences by laying the neighboring lands under water, and blocking up the navigable channels of the Nile by embankments.

Iphicrates Greek: Ιφικράτης ( died c. 353 BC ) was an Athenian general, the son of a shoemaker, who flourished in the earlier half of the 4th century BC.

Iphicrates, however, refused to besiege the Athenian strongholds and fled to Antissa.

Iphicrates Greek: Ιφικράτης ( died c. 353 BC ) was an Athenian general, the son of a shoemaker, who flourished in the earlier half of the 4th century BC.

An example of this would be the Battle of Lechaeum, where an Athenian contingent led by Iphicrates routed an entire Spartan mora ( a unit of anywhere from 500 to 900 hoplites ).

About 367 BC, he fought under the Athenian general Iphicrates against Amphipolis.

Queen Eurydice asked the Athenian general Iphicrates ( their father ’ s adoptive son ) to protect the throne for her two sons.

The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.

Although democracy predated Athenian imperialism by over thirty years, they are sometimes associated with each other.

Even with respect to slavery the new citizen law of 450 BC may have had effect: it is speculated that originally Athenian fathers had been able to register for citizenship offspring had with slave women ( Hansen 1987: 53 ).

However, the invasion ended in 490 BC with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.

This signaled a complete change in Athenian foreign policy, neglecting the alliance with the Spartans and instead allying with her enemies, Argos and Thessaly.

* Temple of Aphaea, dedicated to its namesake, a goddess who was later associated with Athena ; the temple was part of a pre-Christian, equilateral holy triangle of temples including the Athenian Parthenon and the temple of Poseidon at Sounion.

The involvement of Athens in the Ionian Revolt arose from a complex set of circumstances, beginning with the establishment of the Athenian Democracy in the late 6th century BC.

In 510 BC, with the aid of Cleomenes I, King of Sparta, the Athenian people had expelled Hippias, the tyrant ruler of Athens.

The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

Connected with this episode, Herodotus recounts a rumour that this manoeuver by the Persians had been planned in conjunction with the Alcmaeonids, the prominent Athenian aristocratic family, and that a " shield-signal " had been given after the battle.

An Athenian inventory from 330 – 329 BC includes catapults bolts with heads and flights.

An extant inscription from the Athenian arsenal, dated between 338 and 326 BC, lists a number of stored catapults with shooting bolts of varying size and springs of sinews.

Another Athenian inventory from 330-329 BC includes catapult bolts with heads and flights.

In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a " historically-intractable farrago of ' evidence ', heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism ".

In the story of the labyrinth Hellenes told, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread.

Athenian citizens were familiar with rhetoric in the assembly and law courts, and some scholars believe that Euripides was more interested in his characters as speakers with cases to argue than as characters with lifelike personalities.

The term on occasion has been applied to maritime empires or thalassocracies, ( e. g. the Athenian and British Empires ) with looser structures and more scattered territories.