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Gytheio (Gr****: Γύθειο [ˈʝiθio]) or Gythio, also the
ancient Gythium or
Gytheion (Ancient Gr****: Γύθειον), is a town on the
eastern s**** of the Mani...
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siege of
Gythium was
fought in 195 BC
between Sparta and the
coalition of Rome, Rhodes, the
Achaean League, and Pergamum. As the port of
Gythium was an...
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campaign against Laconia and
captured Gythium after a three-day siege. The
Thebans only
briefly managed to hold
Gythium,
which was
captured by 100
elite warriors...
- for the
Roman fleet to arrive, the
Achaean army and navy head
towards Gythium under the
command of Philopoemen. The
Achaean fleet under Tiso is defeated...
- [kraˈnai]) (also Marathonisi) is an
island off the
coast of
Gytheio (ancient
Gythium)
connected to the land by a
causeway built in 1898. Some
believe that the...
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installed a
garrison in the port city of
Gythium that we
first learn of Isidas.
According to Polyaenus, at
Gythium,
Isidas gathered a
hundred youths from...
- In
addition to Crete, she was
worshipped in Aegina, Sparta, Athens, and
Gythium,
among other locations. In
artistic depictions, her
appearance is identical...
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Spartan commander of the port of
Gythium.
During the Roman-Spartan War, the
Romans and
their allies besieged Gythium.
After a few days of fighting, Dexagoridas...
- anti-Spartan
coalition laid
siege to Argos,
captured the
Spartan naval base at
Gythium, and soon
invested and
besieged Sparta itself. Eventually, negotiations...
- Strabo, it was
situated between Amathus (a
false reading for Psamathus) and
Gythium. It was
often under Spartan control.
Polybius relates that
Philip V of...
