
090 The Road to War
The History of Ancient Greece
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The Battle of Olympus
Aristaeus planned to sandwich the advancing Athenian army between two forces One on the isthmus and one at Olympus. Calius had correctly guessed that there would be some sort of trouble coming out of Olympus And so he sent his Macedonian cavalry and a few of his allies to that location ahead of time. The rest of the Athenians left their camp at gagonis and marched on pata dias while Aristace pursued them northwards. Eventually they were routed by the Athenians and were forced to take refuge within the fortifications of pata Dias. When the battle concluded the Athenians set up a trophy and under truce They returned the dead back to the pata di
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