Erétreia

Across the narrow Euboean Gulf from Attica lies Eretria, once a powerful Greek city and a rival of nearby Chalcis. Together the two cities founded colonies in Italy, but fought one another for the fertile Lelantine plain. Eretria sent help to the Ionian revolt against Persia; in 490 BC a Persian fleet captured and burned the city, carrying inhabitants away. Rebuilt soon afterwards, it later prospered under Macedonian rule before suffering destruction again during the First Mithridatic War.