Region: Southern Europe · Coordinates: 39.111, 26.547 · 13 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 428 BC | Diodorus Siculus, Library of History | The Mytileneans lost a naval battle and were besieged. |
| 428 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | All of Lesbos except Methymna breaks away from Athens |
| 428 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | An Athenian fleet arrives and, after truce talks, halts for the time being |
| 428 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Paches surrounds Mytilene with a wall, with 1,000 hoplites (early autumn) |
| 428 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | The Spartan Salaethus slips into Mytilene |
| 427 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | When food runs out, Mytilene hands the city over to Paches |
| 427 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Paches takes Pyrrha and Eresus and arrests Salaethus |
| 427 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Over 1,000 ringleaders are executed, the walls demolished, and the land divided into 3,000 cleruchy plots |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Athens retakes Mytilene almost without a fight, and Astyochus returns from Lesbos to Chios |
| 406 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Conon loses thirty ships at the mouth of the harbor of Mytilene, and his remaining forty ships are dragged up under the walls and blockaded. |
| 389 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | At Lesbos Thrasybulus defeats Therimachus, the governor of Mytilene, and recovers other cities. |
| 333 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | Memnon took Chios and brought all the cities of Lesbos over; while blockading Mytilene with a double palisade he fell ill and died. Mytilene surrendered after reaching an agreement with Pharnabazus. |
| 48 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Pompey goes by the coast toward Amphipolis and crosses to Mytilene to take Cornelia and his son aboard |