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Samos

Samos (Greek: Σάμος): Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, opposite Cape Mycale and Miletus.

According to tradition, settled from Epidauros
Samos, Temple of Hera, Statue of three goddesses and a lion

One of the twelve cities of the Ionian Dodecapolis^note[Herodotus, Histories 1.142.]
Important trade center; contact with Phoenicia
Trade contacts with the Black Sea and Egypt
Splendid temple of Hera
Rivalry with Miletus; on opposing sides during the Lelantine War
c.535: End of the Samian oligarchy; the tyrant Polycrates; alliance with king Amasis of Egypt
One of the monuments of this age was the aqueduct of Eupalinus^note[Herodotus, Histories 3.60.]
Pythagoras
Conquered by the Persians

Samos, Heracles as archer

Samos, Head of a kouros

Samos, Temple of Hera, Statue of a warrior

Column from the temple of Hera

499 At first, Samos supports the Ionian Revolt, but later, it abandons the Ionians
Sides with the Greeks in the war against Persia; member of the Delian League
440 Captured by Athens
431-421 Supports Athens in the Archidamian War
414-404 Supports Athens in the Decelean War
411 Samons helps the Athenian democrats against the Athenian oligarchs
404 Samian democrats defeated by Lysander and replaced by oligarchs
403 Isopoliteia with Athens
394 Independent; 387 surrendered by the Spartans to Persia
366 Conquered by Athens

Epicurus

The philosopher Epicurus and the astronomer Aristarchus were born in Samos
After the death of Alexander the Great: Ptolemaic or Seleucid
After 188 Pergamene
133 Pergamene bequest; the Pergamene possessions become part of the Roman republic