Battle of Megara

Battle of Megara
	Part of the Peloponnesian War
Date	424 BCE
Location	Megara, Greece
Result	Inconclusive, essentially Spartan victory
Belligerents
Athens	Megara; Peloponnesian league
Commanders and leaders
Hippocrates; Demosthenes;	Brasidas
Strength
600 Athenian hoplites under Hippocrates; unknown number of light-armed Plataeans and Athenian hoplites under Demosthenes; 4,000 Athenian hoplites and 600 cavalry in the second wave;	Megara unknown number of Megarian militia; ; Brasidas' taskforce 2,700 Corinthian hoplites; 400 hoplites from Phlius; 700 hoplites from Sicyon; ; Boeotian reinforcements 2,200 Boeotian hoplites; 600 Boeotian cavalry;

The Battle of Megara was fought in 424 BC between Athens and Megara, an ally of Sparta. Whilst the Athenian forces were initially successful against the Peloponnesian garrison there, a hasty arrival of Spartan forces under Brasidas saw a stalemate and eventual victory of the oligarchic party within the city of Megara and the withdrawal of Athenian forces.

Megara was in the country of Megarid, between central Greece and the Peloponnese. Megara, an ally of Sparta, consisted of farming villages, with flat plains and foothills, and hosted two harbors: Pagae (modern Alepochori-Corinthian Gulf) and Nisaia (Saronic Gulf), making it a prime focus of contention¹.

^ ^a ^b Kagan, The Archidamian War, p. 273.
^ Kagan, The Archidamian War, p. 274.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kagan, the Archidamian War, p. 275.
^ ^a ^b Kagan, The Archidamian War, p. 276.

[KAW273-1] Kagan, The Archidamian War, p. 273.

[2] Kagan, The Archidamian War, p. 274.

[KAW275-3] Kagan, the Archidamian War, p. 275.

[KAW276-4] Kagan, The Archidamian War, p. 276.

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