The battle of Labraunda in 497 BC was the second of three battles between the Persians and Carian rebels during the Ionian Revolt (499-493 BC) - wars between the Greeks and the Persian Empire. Herodotus didn`t record the place of the battle.
Presently, when the Persians had come and had crossed the Maeander, they and the Carians joined battle by the river Marsyas. The Carians fought obstinately and for a long time, but at the last they were overcome by the odds. Of the Persians, as many as two thousand men fell, and of the Carians ten thousand. Those of them who escaped were driven into the precinct of Zeus of Armies at Labraunda, a large and a holy grove of plane-trees. (The Carians are the only people whom we know who offer sacrifices to Zeus by this name.) When they had been driven there, they deliberated how best to save themselves, whether it would be better for them to surrender to the Persians or to depart from Asia. - Herodotus V, 1191
The battle of Labraunda in 497 BC was the second of three battles between the Persians and Carian rebels during the Ionian Revolt (499-493 BC) - wars between the Greeks and the Persian Empire. Herodotus didn`t record the place of the battle.
Sources:
- Herodotus, The Histories V.119, A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
- M. Mellink in: The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume X: The Fifth Century BC, 1982, p. 224
- Rickard, J (21 April 2015), Battle of Labraunda, 497 BC , http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_labraunda.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Revolt
References
- ↑ Herodotus, The Histories, V. 119 - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126:book=5:chapter=119&highlight=labraunda