Major Battles

Question 1

Battle of Aegospotami

Answer 1

405 BC - Decisive Spartan victory - Athenian fleet is annihilated. Athens surrenders a year later. Led by Lysander. Lysander’s fleet caught the Athenian ships while they were beached.

Question 2

Battle of Arginusae

Answer 2

406 BC - Athenian victory - Despite the victory Athenian generals were still executed for a failure of rescue during a storm after.

Question 3

Battle of Chaeronea

Answer 3

338 BC - Led by Philip II against Thebes and Athens. Macedonian victory.

Question 4

Battle of Cunaxa

Answer 4

401 BC - Led by Cyrus the Younger against his brother Artaxerxes. Cyrus loyalist win the battle but Cyrus himself is killed. Xenophon flees with other Grecian mercenaries

Question 5

Battle of Gaugamela

Answer 5

331 BC - Alexander the Great vs Darius (Third and final engagement). Macedonian victory

Question 6

Battle of Issus

Answer 6

333 BC - Alexander the Great vs Darius. Macedonian victory. Capture of wife and daughters of Darius.

Question 7

Battle of the Granicus

Answer 7

334 BC - First of the three major engagements between Macedonia and Persia. Macedonian victory

Question 8

Battle of Leuctra

Answer 8

371 BC - Thebans leading the Boeotians against the Spartans. Theban victory

Question 9

Battle of Ipsus

Answer 9

301 BC - Antigonids vs Anti-antigonids. Anti-antigonid decisive victory.

Antigonos I, Demetrios I, and Pyrrhos I (Antigonids) vs Sleukos I, Lysimachos, Antiochos, Prepalaos, and Pleistarchos