The Lamian War was fought in Greece after the death of Alexander the Great, when Athens and other Greek city-states rose against Macedonian rule. The Athenian general Leosthenes led an alliance, with a force that included the Aetolians, and besieged the Macedonian regent Antipater in the city of Lamia in Thessaly, which gave the war its name. Leosthenes was killed in the siege, and Antipater, joined by reinforcements from Asia, escaped and defeated the Greeks at the battle of Crannon in 322. Athens had to accept a Macedonian garrison and restricted citizenship, and the orator Demosthenes took his own life. The war ended the hopes of Greek independence.
Before and after
- 327 BCESiege of the Sogdian Rock
- from 327 BCE to 325 BCEIndian campaign of Alexander the Great
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- from November 326 BCE to February 325 BCEMallian Campaign
- from 323 BCE to 322 BCELamian War
- 323 BCEFarnese Hercules
- from 323 BCE to 30 BCEHellenistic period
- 323 BCEConstruction of Temple of Ephesian Artemis
- 10 June 323 BCEDeath of Alexander the Great
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