Ionian Topography and the Spartan Attack on Sardis, 395 B.C.

This talk examines the literary and archaeological/topographical evidence for Agesilaos’ campaign against Sardis in 395 B.C. By reading the conflicting accounts of Xenophon, the Oxyrhynchus Historian, and Diodorus Siculus in combination with the ancient topography of the Kaystros Valley, a plausible case can be made that Agesilaos marched to Sardis via Hypaipa and over Mount Tmolus, rather than via the Karabel Pass.
This talk is sponsored by the interdisciplinary Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information please contact Professor Christine Thomas.

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