| Years |
War |
Outcome |
| 226 BC–146 BC |
Wars of the Achaean League |
Last independent coalition of Greeks fights Macedonia and Rome |
| 401 BC–399 BC |
Retreat of the Ten Thousand |
Ten thousand Greeks retreat through Asia Minor |
| 357 BC–356 BC |
Athenian Social War |
Rebellion of its colonies disrupts an Athenian effort to rebuild its empire. |
| 373 BC–362 BC |
Boeotian Wars |
Successful Theban rebellion against Spartan Hegemony |
| 395 BC–394 BC |
Corinthian War |
Rebellion of Corinth and Thebes against Spartan Hegemony |
| 321 BC–280 BC |
Wars of the Diadochi |
Wars of Alexander's successors for control of Macedonian Empire |
| 499 BC–450 BC |
Greco Persian Wars |
Greeks repel Persia's invasion of Greece and win freedom for Ionian colonies. |
| 338 BC–331 BC |
Lucian War |
Greek colonies in southern Italy resist the Italic Lucians |
| 338 BC–322 BC |
Macedonian Wars of Conquest |
Alexander the Great's wars of Conquest |
| 459 BC–404 BC |
Peloponnesian War |
Civil war in Greece between the allies of Sparta and Athens |
| 547 BC–512 BC |
Persian Wars of Conquest |
Wars of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses which created the Persian Empire |
| 282 BC–275 BC |
Pyrrhic Wars in Italy |
The Greek colonies in southern Italy resist Roman domination. |
| 198 BC–168 BC |
Roman Macedonian Wars |
Roman conquest of Greece and Macedonia |
| 355 BC–352 BC |
Sacred War |
Greek rebels seize the temple at Delphi and stir up a war with Philip of Macedon. |
| 492 BC–340 BC |
Sicilian Wars |
Greek Sicilians repel Carthaginian invasions and win their independence. |
| 743 BC–471 BC |
Rise of Sparta |
Wars of Sparta for domination of the Peloponnese |
| 244 BC–198 BC |
Syrian Wars |
Wars for Control of Syria between Seleucid and Ptolemy Empires. |
| 1010 BC–1000 BC |
Trojan War |
Legendary war between the mainland Greeks and Trojans. |