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From a power base in Anatolia, the Persians overran the eastern Aegean Islands and set their sights on the Cyclades.
The Acropolis had been a sanctuary to Athena Nike since the fifth century b.c. and following the sacking of the site by the Persians a new smaller temple, or naïskos, was commissioned and designed by Callicrates.
The Persians were followed by Alexander the Great, after whom came two Greek generals Seleucus and Ptolemy, who brought Hellenistic control to the Eastern Mediterranean for some two centuries.
Lydians and Persians
His dreams were fulfilled, and even surpassed, by his son Alexander the Great, in a brief but action-filled lifetime of only 33 years (356–323 b.c. ). In 334 b.c. , aged only 22, he led his army across the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles), and paused at Troy to make a sacrifice at the temple of Athena and pay homage to his hero Achilles, before going on to defeat the Persians at the Battle of Granicus and liberating the Ionian cities.