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| Ancient History - The Battle of Amorgos
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| After the Peloponnesian War, Athens struggled to regain her former
status as a major naval power. In 378 BC, a second Delian League
was founded. However, it never gained its predecessor's strength.
With the rise of Macedonia under Philip II, the battle of Chaeronea,
in 338 BC, brought the second Delian League to its end. Athens made a bid for naval supremacy in the struggle for power that followed the death of Alexander the Great, the son of Philip II, in June 323 BC. The Athenian commander Euetion was defeated in two, possibly three, naval battles by the Macedonian commander Kleitos. The decisive battle was fought in 322 BC near the island of Amorgos in the southern Cyclades. The defeat finally shattered Athens’ dream to regain her former status as one of the greatest naval powers of the Mediterranean. |
