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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- anti-Spartan coalition laid siege to Argos, captured the Spartan naval base at Gythium, and soon invested and besieged Sparta itself. Eventually, negotiations...
- [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...
- Spartan state. The most important of its cities was Gythium. A few years later, in 192 BC, Gythium was recaptured by Nabis of Sparta, but the Achean League...
- 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...
- Gythium. The Periplus speaks of its port; but, according to Pausanias, the town itself was 10 stadia distant from the sea, and 40 stadia from Gythium...
- the Spartan ruler, Nabis, moves to recover lost territory, including Gythium. Carneades of Cyrene moves to Athens to found the third or new Academy...