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Timotheus (general)

Greek statesman and general (410–353 B.C.)

8 dated entries naming Timotheus (general), drawn from 6 separate years between 378 BCE and 354 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century BC

  • 378 BCETimotheus, the son of the Athenian general Conon, is elected strategos of Athens.source
  • 377 BCETimotheus wins over the Acarnanians and Molossians as friends of Athens.source
  • 374 BCESparta attacks Corcyra, enlisting Syracusan help. Athens comes to the island's aid. The Athenian general, Timotheus, captures Corcyra and defeats the Spartans at sea off Alyzia (Acarnania).source
  • 365 BCEThe Athenian forces under general Timotheus overrun Samos, then occupied by a Persian garrison, after a 10-month siege.source
  • 356 BCEChares is given sole command of the Athenian fleet and withdraws to the Hellespont to move against Byzantium. The generals Timotheus, Iphicrates and his son Menestheus are sent with 60 ships to help him when the enemy fleet is sighted on the Hellespont. Timotheus and Iphicrates refuse to engage due to a severe gale, but Chares does engage and lose many of his ships. Timotheus and Iphicrates are accused by Chares and put on trial, however only Timotheus is condemned to pay a fine.source
  • 356 BCEPhilip II of Macedon secretly offers the city of Amphipolis back to the Athenians in exchange for the valuable port of Pydna. Despite the Athenians being willing to comply, both Pydna and Potidaea are conquered by the Macedonians (along with other Athenian strongholds in Thessaly and Chalcidice) despite being defended by Athenian forces led by general and mercenary commander, Chares, as well as generals Iphicrates and Timotheus.source
  • 356 BCEHaving blamed their defeats to Philip II in Thessaly and Chalcidice on his colleagues (Iphicrates and Timotheus), Chares is left in sole command of the Athenian fleet. Chares, in need of money for his war effort, frowns upon asking it from Athens, so, partly compelled by his mercenaries, he enters the service of the insurgent Achaemenid satrap of Phrygia Artabazus who rewards Chares very generously.source
  • 354 BCETimotheus, Athenian statesman and generalsource

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