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That Olynthus was backed by Athens and Thebes, rivals to Sparta for the control of Greece, provided them with an additional incentive to break up this growing power in the north.
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Olynthus and was
With Olynthus defeated, Amyntas was now able to conclude a treaty with Athens and keep the timber revenues for himself.
The fall of Olynthus ( 348 BC ) brought Aeschines into the political arena, and he was sent on an embassy to rouse the Peloponnese against Philip II of Macedon.
Olynthus (, named for the olunthos, the fruit of the wild fig tree ) was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30 – 40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2. 5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia ( c. 9 – 10 kilometers ) from Poteidaea.
Olynthus, son of Heracles, was considered the mythological founder of the town.
In this year Sparta was induced by an embassy from Acanthus and Apollonia, which anticipated conquest by the league, to send an expedition against Olynthus.
When the Social War broke out between Athens and its allies ( 357 ), Olynthus was at first in alliance with Philip.
The probable site of Olynthus was identified as early as 1902.
An army from Chalcidice, Spartolos, and Olynthus met the Athenians in battle, but their hoplites were defeated and they retreated to Spartolus ; their cavalry, however, was victorious against the Athenian troops.
He was aided by Cleomenes of Naucratis and by Crates of Olynthus, an esteemed hydraulic engineer who built the waterworks for the city and the sewer system demanded by the low-lying site.
He espoused the cause of Philip II of Macedon in the war against Olynthus, and was thus brought into bitter and lifelong enmity with Demosthenes, whom he at first supported.
* RFA Olwen was an oiler launched in 1964 as RFA Olynthus.
The legendary Alexander material originated as early as the time of the Ptolemaic dynasty ( 305 BC to 30 BC ) and its unknown authors are sometimes referred to as the Pseudo-Callisthenes ( not to be confused with Callisthenes of Olynthus, who was Alexander's official historian ).
Apollonia was one of the 32 cities, which, under the leadership of the Olynthus, constituted the Koinon ton Chalkideon ( Chalkidian League ).
However, Aristotle was only twelve at the time of the comet's appearance and the historian, Callisthenes of Olynthus, who also wrote about it was born ten years after its appearance.
According to Athenaeus, Bolbe was the mother of Olynthus by Heracles.
Olynthus and by
To shore up his country against the threat of the Illyrians, Amyntas established an alliance with the Chalkidian League led by Olynthus.
* The relations between Alexander and Aristotle are embittered by the execution of Aristotle's nephew, the historian Callisthenes of Olynthus, who is charged with treason.
Olynthus became a Greek polis, but it remained insignificant ( in the quota-lists of the Delian League it appears as paying on the average 2 talents, as compared with 6 to 15 paid by Scione, 6 to 15 by Mende, 6 to 12 by Toroni ), and 3 to 6 by Sermylia from 454 to 432.
In 432 King Perdiccas II of Macedon encouraged several nearby coastal towns to disband and remove their population to Olynthus, preparatory to a revolt to be led by Potidaea against Athens ( Thuc.
In 423 Olynthus became the head of a formal Chalkidian League, occasioned by the synoecism or by the beginning of the Peloponnesian War and fear of Athenian attack.
Twenty years later, in the reign of Philip, the power of Olynthus is asserted by Demosthenes to have been much greater than before the Spartan expedition.
After Philip had deprived Olynthus of the rest of the League, by force and by the treachery of sympathetic factions, he besieged Olynthus in 348.
Olynthus and Athens
* In the wake of the Macedonian victory at Olynthus, Athens seeks to make peace with Macedonia.
* Aristotle leaves Athens due to the anti-Macedonian feeling that arises in Athens after Philip II of Macedon has sacked the Greek city-state of Olynthus in 348 BC.
As Athens declared war against him, he allied with the Chalkidian League of Olynthus.
Olynthus had at first allied itself with Philip, but later shifted its allegiance to Athens.
Olynthus made three embassies to Athens, the occasions of Demosthenes's three Olynthiac Orations.
Olynthus and for
They destroy crops outside Spartolus and begin negotiating with pro-Athenian factions in Chalcis, but the anti-Athenian factions ask for help from Olynthus.
After the campaign against Olynthus in 382, general fighting resumed with the revived Athenian naval confederacy and continued, with intermittent attempts to restore the peace, for much of the next two decades.
They destroyed the crops outside and began negotiating with pro-Athenian factions in Chalcidice, but the anti-Athenian factions asked for help from Olynthus.
Olynthus and Greece
Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek bronze arrowhead, 4th century BC, from Olynthus, Chalcidice
Olynthus and with
Amyntas thus concluded a treaty with the Spartans, who assisted him to reduce Olynthus ( 379 ).
Olynthus and growing
When Amyntas sought Spartan aid against the growing threat of Olynthus, the Spartans eagerly responded.
Olynthus and power
With money flowing into Olynthus from these exports, their power grew.
Olynthus and .
To the chief of these coastal cities, Olynthus, Philip continued to profess friendship until its neighboring cities were in his hands.
In 349 BCE, Philip started the siege of Olynthus, which, apart from its strategic position, housed his relatives Arrhidaeus and Menelaus, pretenders to the Macedonian throne.
The Macedonian king finally took Olynthus in 348 BCE and razed the city to the ground.
* Callisthenes of Olynthus, Greek historian, great nephew and pupil of Aristotle ( b. c. 360 BC )
He conquers the city of Olynthus in the Chalcidice and he annexes Chalcidice to Macedonia.
* After recovering from illness, Philip II of Macedon turns his attention to the remaining Athenian controlled cities in Macedonia and to the city of Olynthus, in particular.
An army from Chalcis, Spartolus, and Olynthus meet the Athenians in battle, but their hoplites are defeated.
Reinforcements soon arrive from Olynthus, and they launch a second attack on the Athenians.
* Callisthenes of Olynthus, Greek historian ( d. 328 BC )
From Olynthus, Chalcidice.
Callisthenes of Olynthus ( in Greek ; ca.
* Livius. org: Callisthenes of Olynthus
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