Battle of Ephesus (409 BC)

The Battle of Ephesus is a battle between the Athenian army under the command of Frasillus and the combined forces of Persia , Ephesus, Syracuse and Selinunte, ending in the defeat of the Athenians.

In 409 BC er Thrasill led successful military operations in Lydia, after which he loaded his soldiers on ships and sailed to Ephesus. Upon learning of this, the Persian satrap Tissafern gathered a large army.

Thrasillus, on the eighteenth day after the invasion of Lydia, sailed to Ephesus; he landed hoplites near Koress, and horsemen, peltasts, sailors and other troops near a swamp located on the other side of the city, and with the onset of the day brought both troops to the city. Citizens opposed them, and with them allies whom Tissafern and the Syracusans brought both from the previous twenty ships and from five more, who had only recently arrived under the command of Euclus, son of Gippon, and Heraclides, son of Aristogenes and, finally, two Selintus . All of them first turned against the hoplites who were in Koress; having put them to flight and having killed about a hundred of them, they pursued them to the seashore, after which they turned against those who settled near the swamp. And here the Athenians fled, losing about three hundred people. The Ephesians set two trophies: here and at Koress. In these battles, the Syracusans and Selinunts excelled most; for this, awards were given out for courage both to their states and to individual brave men from among them, and everyone who wishes received the eternal right to live in Ephesus without paying taxes. To the Selinunts, since their city perished, 20 they gave the right to citizenship. Then the Athenians, having made a truce to clean up the corpses, sailed away to Notius; burying the dead there, they sailed to Lesbos and the Hellespont. ^[one]