The Aetolian League was a confederation of the cities and tribes of Aetolia in central Greece, whose name originates from a region that had a reputation as rough and backward. It grew in importance in the fourth and third centuries BCE, when it built a federal system with an assembly and an elected general, and expanded to control Delphi, the great sanctuary, and parts of central Greece. The league resisted Macedonian power and helped to defeat an invasion of Gauls at Delphi in 279 BCE, and it was a rival of the Achaean League. It allied with Rome against Philip V of Macedon, but then clashed with Rome itself after joining Antiochus III, and it was reduced to a subordinate ally in 189 BCE.
Before and after
- from 415 BCE to 413 BCESicilian Expedition
- 406 BCEDeath of Sophocles
- from 5th century BCE to 10th centuryKingdom of Aksum
- 5th century BCEOrigins of Temple of Zeus in Olympia
- 5th century BCEFounding of Aetolian League
- 5th century BCERise of Cynicism
- 15 February 399 BCEDeath of Socrates
- from 398 BCE to 378 BCETwenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt
- from 395 BCE to 387 BCECorinthian War
More in Society, economy & sport
- 7th century BCEIntroduction of tetradrachm
- from 550 BCE to 366 BCEFounding of Peloponnesian League
- from 4th century BCE to 4th centuryFounding of Library of Alexandria
- from 280 BCE to 146 BCEFounding of Achaean League
- 167 BCERise of Maccabees
- 2nd centuryRise of Montanism
The era
This moment belongs to the Ancient civilizations (3,200 BCE to 500 CE), writing, cities and empires.