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See also: ancient Corinthian colony, situated about 7 M. from the Ambracian Gulf, on a See also: bend of the navigable See also: river Aracthus (or Aratthus), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain
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It was founded between 65o and 625_ B.c. by Gorgus, son of the Corinthian See also: tyrant Cypselus
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After the expulsion of Gorgus's son See also: Periander its See also: government See also: developed into a strong democracy
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The early policy of See also: Ambracia was determined by its See also: loyalty to See also: Corinth (for which it probably served as an entrepot in the See also: Epirus See also: trade), its consequent aversion tq Corcyra, and its frontier disputes with the Amphilochians and Acarnanians
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Hence it took a prominent See also: part in the Peloponnesian War until the crushing defeat at Idomene (426) crippled its resources
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In the 4th century it continued its traditional policy, but in 338 surrendered to See also: Philip II. of Macedon
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After
See also: forty-three years of autonomy under Macedonian See also: suzerainty it became the capital of See also: Pyrrhus, See also: king of Epirus, who adorned it with palace, temples and theatres
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In the .
See also: wars of Philip V. of Macedon and the Epirotes against the Aetolian See also: league (220--2o5) Ambracia passed from one See also: alliance to the other, but ultimately joined the latter confederacy
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During the struggle of the Aetolians against See also: Rome it stood a stubborn siege
.
After its capture and See also: plunder by M
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Fulvius See also: Nobilior in 189, it See also: fell into insignificance
.
The foundation by See also: Augustus of See also: Nicopolis (q.v.), into which the remaining inhabitants were drafted, See also: left the site desolate
..
In See also: Byzantine times a new See also: settlement took its place
AMBRACIA
under the name of Arta (q.v.)
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Some fragmentary walls of large, well-dressed blocks near this latter See also: town indicate the early prosperity of Ambracia
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AUTnoRIT1Es.-See also: Thucydides ii
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68-iii
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114; See also: Aristotle, Politics, 1303a sqq
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; See also: Strabo p
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325; See also: Polybius xxii
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9-13; See also: Livy xxxviii
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3-9; G
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Wolfe, Journal of See also: Geographical Society (See also: London), iii
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(1833) pp
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77-94; E
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Oberhummer, Akarnanien, Ambrakien, &c. See also: im Altertum (See also: Munich, 1887)
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