Wars of the Delian League

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The Wars of the Delian League (477–449 BC) were a series of campaigns fought between the Delian League led by Athens and her allies, and the Achaemenid Empire. These conflicts represent the continuation of the Greco-Persian Wars, after the second Persian invasion of Greece. The Greek alliance, led by Sparta and Athens, had defeated the second Persian invasion and initially followed up this success by capturing the Persian garrisons of Sestos and Byzantium, both in Thrace, in 479 and 478 BC, respectively. After the capture of Byzantium, the Spartans elected not to continue the war effort, and a new alliance, commonly known as the Delian League, was formed, with Athens very much the dominant power. Over the next 30 years, Athens would gradually assume a more hegemonic position over the league, which gradually evolved into the Athenian Empire. Throughout the 470s BC, the Delian League campaigned in Thrace and the Aegean to remove the remaining Persian garrisons from the region, primarily under...

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