Battle
On this page, you will find an overview of ancient battles. On the pages, you will find descriptions of the fights, pictures of the warriors, and maps of the battlefields.
There are 57 items in Battle:
Actium (31 BCE)
Naval Battle of Actium (31 BCE): the decive battle in the last of the civil wars of the Roman Republic. Octavian defeated Mark Antony and founded the monarchy. …Adrianople (378 CE)
Battle of Adrianople (378 CE): important battle in which an army of Germanic tribes defeated a Roman army. Büyükdöllük On 9 August…Aigospotamoi (1)
Aigospotamoi: the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (431-404). In September 405, the Athenians were decisively defeated by the Spartans and lost their navy. As a result, the siege and fall of Athens became inevitable.The Battle of Aigospotamoi (405 BCE) …Alesia (52 BCE)
Siege of Alesia (52 BCE): one of the most important battles during Caesar's conquest of Gaul. After he had taken the Gallic town, only mopping-up operations remained.War in Gaul …Allia (387 or 386 BCE)
Allia: name of a little river, northeast of Rome, where the Romans suffered a severe military defeat against the Celtic Senones in 387 or 386 BCE. …Aornus (326 BCE)
Aornus (Old Indian Āvárana, "hiding place"): giant fortress near the Indus, captured by Alexander the Great. The Indus and the Aornus, seen…Artemisium (480 BCE)
Artemisium (Greek Ἀρτεμίσιον): northern cape of the isle of Euboea, well known for a the naval battle in which the navy of the united Greeks was unable to black the advance of the Persian naval forces (480 BCE). …Carrhae (53 BCE)
Harran (Akkadian Harrânu, "intersecting roads"; Latin Carrhae): ancient city in Mesopotamia, famous for a temple of the Moon god Sin and the defeat of the Roman general Crassus in 53 BCE ("battle of Carrhae"). …Chaeronea (338 BCE)
Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE): decisive battle in which king Philip II of Macedonia overcame Athens and Thebes, which meant, essentially the end of Greek independence. …Colmar (58 BCE)
Battle of Colmar (58 BCE): one of the first battles of the Gallic War, in which Caesar defeated an army led by the Germanic leader Ariovistus.Context …Corupedium (281 BCE)
Corupedium: site of the decisive battle in the war between Seleucus Nicator and Lysimachus (281 BCE). Seleucus I Nicator. Louvre, Paris…Cynoscephalae (197 BCE)
Battle of Cynoscephalae: decisive battle during the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BCE), in which the Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus overcame the Macedonian king Philip V. …