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Sigeion occupied a strategically critical position at the entrance to the Hellespont, and control of it was contested violently for generations — Athens and Mytilene fought a prolonged war over the site in the sixth century, a conflict famous partly because Pittacus of Mytilene, later counted among the Seven Sages of Greece, personally killed the Athenian commander Phrynon in single combat to settle it. The city changed hands repeatedly between Greek factions and Persian-aligned rulers before Macedonian expansion reshuffled the region entirely.

The broad date range assigned to this type reflects genuine uncertainty in the series rather than careless cataloging.