Historic Battles / Classical Greece

Classical Greece battles

5 battles from 490 BC to 338 BC — who fought whom, what it decided, the cost, and where it happened on the map.

5 battles · Classical Greece

338 BCClassical Greece

Macedon vs Greek coalition

Macedon dominates Greece

Theban Sacred Band destroyed

371 BCClassical Greece

Thebes vs Sparta

Part of the Boeotian War

End Spartan hegemony

King Cleombrotus I killed

479 BCClassical Greece

Greece vs Persia

Part of the Second Persian invasion of Greece

Final Greek victory

~50,000 Persians Plataea, Greece

Mardonius killed

480 BCClassical Greece

Greece vs Persia

Part of the Second Persian invasion of Greece

Greek naval victory

Ariabignes, Persian admiral killed

490 BCClassical Greece

Athens vs Persia

Part of the First Persian invasion of Greece

First Persian invasion halted

Callimachus killed