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571: 693: 113: 85: 106: 546:. On the third, the Athenians sent soldiers from among its citizens. After Philip had deprived Olynthus of the rest of the League, by force and by the treachery of sympathetic factions, he besieged Olynthus in 348. The siege was short; he bought Olynthus's two principal citizens, Euthycrates and Lasthenes, who betrayed the city to him. He then looted and razed the city and sold its population—including the Athenian garrison—into slavery. According to the latest researches only a small area of the North Hill was ever re-occupied, up to 318, before 78: 61: 530:, which anticipated conquest by the league, to send an expedition against Olynthus. After three years of indecisive warfare Olynthus consented to dissolve the confederacy (379). It is clear, however, that the dissolution was little more than formal, as the Chalcidians ("Χαλκιδῆς ἀπò Θρᾴκης") appear, only a year or two later, among the members of the Athenian naval confederacy of 378–377. Twenty years later, in the reign of Philip, the power of Olynthus is asserted by 585: 1159: 668:
The Neolithic settlement is located in the edge of the southern hill and was dated in the 3rd millennium BC. The houses were built by stone blocks and had one or two rooms. The pottery that was found was the typical of that period comprising monochrome ceramic vases. The end of this rural settlement
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and extended throughout the whole south hill. Two avenues were revealed along the eastern and western edges of the hill that intersected with crossing streets. Along the south avenue shops and small houses were found while the administrative part was located in the north part of the hill, where the
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of an area of the city occupied only for 84 years and subjected to a sudden, final destruction; but the data from the South Hill was badly muddled. Nonetheless, the work was excellent for its time, and remains supremely valuable. Much of the stratigraphy of the North Hill has been reconstructed by
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Both the archaic and classical city were protected by an extended land wall. Parts of the foundations of the wall were revealed in the north hill and elsewhere, but they are not enlightening on which method was followed for their construction. Archaeologists suppose that it was built with
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broke out between Athens and its allies (357), Olynthus was at first in alliance with Philip. Subsequently, in alarm at the growth of his power, it concluded an alliance with Athens. Olynthus made three embassies to Athens, the occasions of Demosthenes's three
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and possess an area ca. 1500 m long and 400 m in width. Robinson conducted three additional excavations in 1931, 1934, and 1938, publishing the results in fourteen volumes. Some of his writing was later found to have been plagiarized from another excavator,
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to break away. Suspecting that a revolt against the Great King was meditated, in order to control the situation, Artabazus captured Olynthus, which was thought to be disloyal, and killed its inhabitants. The town had priorly been given to Kritovoulos from
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and the city's parliament building (Βουλευτήριον). There is a small museum featuring artifacts recovered from Olynthus, and the whole archaeological site is open to public tours during daylight hours.
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to have been much greater than before the Spartan expedition. The town itself at this period is spoken of as a city of the first rank (πóλις μuρἰανδρος), and the league included thirty-two cities.
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in 348 BCE. It was finally abandoned in 316 BCE. Excavations were conducted across four seasons, spanning from 1928 to 1938. Artefacts found during the excavations of the site are exhibited in the
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city was established on the much larger north hill and to its eastern slope. The excavations, which cover only 1/10 of the city's total area, have revealed a
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encouraged several nearby coastal towns to disband and remove their population to Olynthus, preparatory to a revolt to be led by Potidaea against Athens (
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Though the city was extinguished, through subsequent centuries there would be men scattered through the Hellenistic world who were called Olynthians.
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that were excavated in the aristocratic suburb of the city located in the eastern part of the north hill since there was found some of the earliest
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Nicholas Cahill (University of Wisconsin). The site is now in the charge of Julia Vokotopoulou, and the XVI Ephorate of Classical Antiquities.
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Borza, E., M. Willoughby, R. Talbert, J. Åhlfeldt, J. Becker, A. Rabinowitz, T. Elliott, DARMC, J. Bartlett, S. Gillies (22 December 2021).
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on the western side of the river Olynthios or Resetenikia (in ancient times known as Sandanus), across from the ruins of the ancient city.
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the development of the league was rapid and ended consisting of 32 cities. About 393 we find it concluding an important treaty with
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and to a fresh population consisting of Greeks from the neighboring region of Chalcidice, who had been exiled by the Macedonians (
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Sprawski, Sławomir (2010). "The Early Temenid Kings to Alexander I". In Roisman, Joseph; Worthington, Ian (eds.).
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viii. 127). Though Herodotus reports that Artabazus slaughtered them, Boetiaeans continued to live in the area.
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is placed in the south edge of the north hill, near the eastern gate, along with a public fountain, an
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and a large team of archaeologists and workmen began excavations at Olynthus in collaboration with the
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Ancient cities: the archaeology of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome
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Robinson, David M. (January–March 1929). "A Preliminary Report on the Excavations at Olynthos".
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The modern village, formerly Myriophyton, now called Olynthos or Nea Olynthos, sits on a small
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with a stone base, but it is difficult to tell, since the city was literally leveled by
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Olynthus became a Greek polis, but it remained insignificant (in the quota-lists of the
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and fear of Athenian attack. During the Peloponnesian war it formed a base for
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it appears as paying on the average 2 talents, as compared with 6 to 15 paid by
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Robinson, David M. (December 1952). "OLYNTHUS: — The Greek Pompeii".
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Excavations at Olynthus: The Neolithic settlement, by G.E. Mylonas
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The Johns Hopkins University Press -.; Milford, H. -. (1929).
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and the presence of some inscriptions, the British adventurer
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Johns Hopkins University; George Emmanuel Mylonas (1952).
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The city flourished between 432 BC and its destruction by
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Excavations at Olynthus: Part 1; the Neolithic Settlement
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reasoned that the site of Olynthus was at the village of
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in his expedition of 424 and refuge for the citizens of
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Ancient Greek archaeological sites in Central Macedonia
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16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
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Wace, Alan (November 1916). "The Site of Olynthus".
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was abrupt and is placed around the 1st millennium.
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might pursue an excavation, but nothing came of it.
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Olynthus (butterfly)
Olynthus (sponge)
Olynthus (mythology)

Olynthus is located in northern Greece
Olynthus is located in northern Greece
Central Macedonia
Greece
40°17′46″N 23°21′14″E / 40.296°N 23.354°E / 40.296; 23.354
Chalcidian League
David Moore Robinson
Mary Ross Ellingson
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Ancient Greek
Chalcidice
Gulf of Torone
Pallene
Poteidaea
Phillip II of Macedon
Archaeological Museum of Olynthos
Olynthus
Strymon
Neolithic
Bronze Age
Bottiaeans
Alexander I
Salamis
Xerxes
Hellespont
Artabazus

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