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:
Lake Trasimene (217 BCE)
Battle of the Trasimene Lake (217 BCE): important Roman defeat during the war against Hannibal, the Second Punic War.The Trasimene Lake or, as it is called today, Lago Trasimeno, is one of the large volcanic lakes in Central Italy. It…Marathon (490 BCE)
Battle of Marathon: famous clash between a Persian invasion force and an army of Athenians in 490 BCE. Tomb of the…Mycale (479 BCE)
Mycale: promontory in western Turkey, famous for a battle in 479 BCE in which the allied Greeks defeated the navy of the Achaemenid king Xerxes, modern Dilek Daği. …Oppidum Aduatucorum (57 BCE)
Siege of the Oppidum of the Aduatuci (57 BCE): mopping-up operation after Caesar's Nervian victory. Caesar After Julius Caesar had defeated the…Ora (Odigram) (327/326 BCE)
Ora: Indian mountain fort, captured by Alexander the Great, modern Odigram. The cemetery of Odigram and the Ora fort The enormous ancient…Persian Gate (330 BCE)
Persian Gate: site along the Royal Road where, in the first days of 330 BCE, the Persian commander Ariobarzanes was defeated by Alexander the Great. …Pharsalus (48 BCE)
In the Battle of Pharsalus, on 9 August 48 BCE, the Roman general Julius Caesar defeated the troops of the Roman Senate, commanded by his rival Pompey the Great. Caesar's victory marked the end of the Roman republic. …Philippi (42 BCE)
Battle of Philippi (42 BCE): decisive battle in the war between the republican assassins of Caesar and his avengers, the triumvirs, who won. As a consequence, Rome was destine to become a monarchy.Summary In October 42 BCE, two Roman armies approached…Plataea (479 BCE)
Battle of Plataea (479 BCE): decisive battle in the Persian War in which the Greeks overcame the Persian invaders. Plataea, seen…Pydna (168 BCE)
Battle of Pydna: Rome's decisive victory in the Third Macedonian War (168 BCE)The following account of the battle of Pydna, which took place on 22 June 168 BCE, was written by the Roman historian Livy, who uses as his source…Qarqar (853 BCE)
Battle of Qarqar: one of the fights during the Assyrian king Šalmaneser III's campaign against the city states of Syria. The main source is the Kurkh Stela, which has become famous because it mentions king Ahab of Israel.Prelude …Rubico (49 BCE)
Rubico: little river in northeastern Italy, once the border between the Roman province Cisalpine Gaul and Italy proper. Crossing the river with an army, as Julius Caesar did in 49 BCE, was identical to invading one's own country. …