Acarnanians
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the Acarnanians · Palaereans
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History of the Peloponnesian War
The people of Acarnania, allied with Athens, who help retake Argos in Amphilochia and later face the joint Peloponnesian, Ambraciot, and Chaonian invasion of their country.
And it was after this event that the alliance between the Athenians and Acarnanians was first made.
The Acarnanians, finding that a large army had invaded them by land, and that the enemy would also be upon them with a fleet by sea, did not prepare to make any united resistance, but to defend their own separate possessions;
So the Peloponnesians and their allies, having formed themselves into three divisions, were advancing to the city of Stratus;
Against Ctesiphon
Greek people claimed by Demosthenes to support Athens against Philip.
The sum of what he said was that all Peloponnesus could be counted on, and that he had brought all the Acarnanians into line against Philip;
and that in addition to these forces the citizen troops would be ready, from the Peloponnesus more than two thousand hoplites, and as many more from Acarnania that the leadership of them all was given to you, and that all this was going to be done, not after a long interval, but by the 16th of Anthesterion;
Yes, look at his imposture when he says that by his services as envoy he dragged Byzantium from Philip’s hands, and caused the revolt of the Acarnanians, and carried the Thebans away by his harangues.
The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient Greek people excused for failing a defensive treaty under duress.
” On this score, Polybius excuses the Acarnanians, for having neglected, when threatened with impending danger themselves, to fulfil the terms of a defensive treaty made with the Greeks against the Aetolians.
Agesilaus
People fought by Agesilaus in support of the Achaeans and later part of an anti-Spartan coalition.
nor did he cease until he had induced the Acarnanians, Aetolians and Argives to enter into friendship with the Achaeans and alliance with himself.
After this Sparta was attacked by all the Arcadians, Argives, Eleians and Boeotians, who had the support of the Phocians, both the Locrian peoples, the Thessalians, Aenianians, Acarnanians and Euboeans.
Hellenica
People opposed to the Achaeans and Lacedaemonians, allied with Athenians and Boeotians, who resist Agesilaus before making peace.
But the Acarnanians, learning of this and thinking that inasmuch as their cities were in the interior they would be just as truly besieged by the people who destroyed their corn as if they were besieged by an army encamped around them, sent ambassadors to Lacedaemon and concluded peace with the Achaeans and an alliance with the Lacedaemonians.
But when Agesilaus arrived at the borders of the enemy’s country, he sent to the general assembly of the Acarnanians at Stratus and said that unless they discontinued their alliance with the Boeotians and Athenians and chose his people and the Achaeans as allies, he would lay waste their whole territory, one portion after another, and would not spare any portion of it.
Now, however, many peltasts of the Acarnanians came up, and, inasmuch as Agesilaus was encamped on the mountain-side, by throwing stones and discharging their slings from the ridge of the mountain they succeeded, without suffering any harm themselves, in forcing the army to descend to the plain, even though the men were already making preparations for dinner.