Metropolis (Amphilochia)
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Metropolis () was a city in ancient Amphilochia,
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, near to and probably northeast of Olpae. During the
Peloponnesian War The Second Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), often called simply the Peloponnesian War (), was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek war fought between Classical Athens, Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Ancien ...
, the Spartan general Eurylochus camped here prior to the Battle of Olpae in which he was slain.
Thucydides Thucydides ( ; ; BC) was an Classical Athens, Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts Peloponnesian War, the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been d ...
3.107.


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