What the records say
- When
- Sep 87 BCE – 27 Feb 86 BCE
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 37.98° N, 23.72° E
- Description
- siege in Athens 87/86 BCE
Siege of Athens and Piraeus (87–86 BC)
The siege of Athens and Piraeus was a siege of the First Mithridatic War that took place from autumn of 87 BC to the spring of 86 BC. The battle was fought between the forces of the Roman Republic, commanded by Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix on the one hand, and the forces of the Kingdom of Pontus and the Athenian City-State on the other. The Greek and Pontic forces were commanded by Aristion and Archelaus.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sulla erobert im Zuge des 1. Mithridatischen Krieges Athen und lässt es plündern”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page