Region: West Asia · Coordinates: 40.194, 26.411 · 14 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 480 BC | Herodotus, Histories | A bridge is built over the Hellespont, but a storm destroys it, and it is built again |
| 480 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Xerxes reviews his army and fleet at Abydos |
| 480 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Xerxes' army crosses the Hellespont bridge |
| 480 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Xerxes hurries across to Abydos |
| 411 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | The Spartan Dercylidas goes overland to the Hellespont and brings about the defection of Abydos, and Lampsacus follows two days later |
| 411 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | On the shore of Abydos the Athenian and Peloponnesian fleets fight all day; Alcibiades joins with eighteen ships and secures the advantage. (Pharnabazus rides his horse into the sea to help.) |
| 389 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Iphicrates sallies from the Chersonese to attack Anaxibius, who had gone to Antandrus. |
| 389 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | On the plain of Cremaste, Iphicrates springs from an ambush and attacks Anaxibius's army by surprise; Anaxibius and twelve Lacedaemonian harmosts fall. |
| 387 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Antalcidas returns from Tiribazus at Sardis and goes to Abydos, where he ambushes and captures eight Athenian ships, swelling his forces. |
| 200 BC | Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) | The king was not directing the siege himself but was fighting a naval contest with Rhodes and Attalus and attacking Abydos |
| 200 BC | Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) | The people of Abydos, seized by frenzy, believed all the fallen had been betrayed and accused one another of oath-breaking |
| 200 BC | Polybius, Histories | Philip besieges Abydos by land and sea |
| 200 BC | Polybius, Histories | The people of Abydos resolve to conquer or die |
| 200 BC | Polybius, Histories | After the inner wall collapses, the citizens kill their wives and children and the city falls |