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Samos
https://vici.org/vici/32872/Samos (Greek: Σάμος): Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, opposite Cape Mycale and Miletus.
The island
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Samos, seen from Mycale - Two main mountains; essentially, the island is a continuation of Cape Mycale
- Main city, also called Samos, in the southeast
Early History
- According to tradition, settled from Epidauros
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Samos, Temple of Hera, Statue of three goddesses and a lion - Important trade center; contact with Phoenicia
- Trade contacts with the Black Sea and Egypt
- Splendid temple of Hera
- Rivalry with Miletus; on opposing sides during the Lelantine War
- c.535: End of the Samian oligarchy; the tyrant Polycrates; alliance with king Amasis of Egypt
- One of the monuments of this age was the aqueduct of Eupalinusnote
- Pythagoras
- Conquered by the Persians
Samos, Head of a kouros |
Samos, Head of a kouros |
Samos, Temple of Hera, Statue of a warrior |
Samos, Heracles as archer |
Classical Age
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Column from the temple of Hera - Sides with the Greeks in the war against Persia; member of the Delian League
- 440 Captured by Athens
- 431-421 Supports Athens in the Archidamian War
- 414-404 Supports Athens in the Decelean War
- 411 Samons helps the Athenian democrats against the Athenian oligarchs
- 404 Samian democrats defeated by Lysander and replaced by oligarchs
- 403 Isopoliteia with Athens
- 394 Independent; 387 surrendered by the Spartans to Persia
- 366 Conquered by Athens
Later History
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Epicurus - After the death of Alexander the Great: Ptolemaic or Seleucid
- After 188 Pergamene
- 133 Pergamene bequest; the Pergamene possessions become part of the Roman republic