Ionians in a sentence

A kick out on the full gave Ionians a line out on Otley’s 22, which also saw Waddington coming back onto the pitch, but in the ensuing melee Sam Hodge took over his throne.

After the Persians defeated Croesus, the Ionians offered to make peace, but Cyrus insisted that they surrender and become part of the empire.

A strong fortress was built probably by the Smyrnaean Ionians to command the valley of Nymphi, the ruins of which are still imposing, on a hill in the pass between Smyrna and Nymphi.

He does make it clear that some Dorian states aligned or were forced to align with the Athenians while some Ionians went with the Lacedaemonians and that the motives for alignment were not always ethnic but were diverse.

Herodotus states that in Asia the Ionians kept the division into twelve cities that had prevailed in Ionian lands of the north Peloponnese, their former homeland, which became Achaea after they left.

Holland, p362 Xanthippus, the Athenian commander at Mycale, had furiously rejected this; the Ionian cities were originally Athenian colonies, and the Athenians, if no-one else, would protect the Ionians.

If the Ionians came from Achaea, they departed during or after the change from East Greek to West Greek there.

Ionians had been expelled from the Peloponnesus by the Dorians and had sought refuge in Athens.

It would seem that already by Aristotle's time the early Ionians were largely names only to which popular tradition attached various ideas or achievements with greater or less plausibility".

Smyrna had not yet been taken by the Ionians.

So the lines were drawn between the Dorians and the Aeolians (here Boeotians) with the Ionians (former Peloponnesians).

Strabo, 11.11.4 Herodotus also records a Persian commander threatening to enslave daughters of the revolting Ionians and send them to Bactria.

The Ionians were now free.

The naval power of Chios during this period is demonstrated by the fact that the Chians had the largest fleet (100 ships) of all of the Ionians at the Battle of Lade in 494 BC.

The Spartans had been called on by the Ionians to assist them against the Persian King Artaxerxes II.

This name was always adduced as evidence by Antiochenes (e.g. Libanius ) anxious to affiliate themselves to the Attic Ionians —an eagerness which is illustrated by the Athenian types used on the city's coins.

When Datis surrendered and was ready for retreat, the Ionians climbed the trees and gave the Athenians the signal that the cavalry had left.