# Battle of Cos

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{{Short description|Ancient naval battle}}
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|conflict=Battle of Cos|
|partof=the [Chremonidean War](/source/Chremonidean_War) or the [Syrian Wars](/source/Syrian_Wars)
|date=261/255 BC
|place= [Kos](/source/Kos)
|result=[Macedon](/source/Macedon)ian victory
|combatant1=[Antigonid](/source/Antigonid) [Macedonia](/source/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom))
|combatant2=[Ptolemaic Egypt](/source/Ptolemaic_Egypt)
|commander1=[Antigonus II Gonatas](/source/Antigonus_II_Gonatas)
|commander2=[Patroclus](/source/Patroclus_(admiral)) (?), admiral of [Ptolemy II](/source/Ptolemy_II)
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{{Campaignbox Syrian Wars}}

The '''Battle of Cos Omac''' was fought in {{circa|261 BC}}, or as late as 255 BC, between an [Antigonid](/source/Antigonid) fleet and a [Ptolemaic](/source/Ptolemaic_Kingdom) fleet. [Antigonus II Gonatas](/source/Antigonus_II_Gonatas) led his forces to victory, possibly over Patroclus, admiral of [Ptolemy II](/source/Ptolemy_II). It has been widely assumed that the battle severely damaged Ptolemaic control of the Aegean, but this has been contested<ref>[Boardman, John](/source/John_Boardman_(art_historian)), [Walbank, Frank William](/source/F._W._Walbank). The Cambridge ancient history, Volume 7,&nbsp;Part 1. The Cambridge Ancient History, John Boardman, {{ISBN|0-521-85073-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-85073-5}} [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 1982. {{ISBN|052123445X}}. p.243.</ref> After the battle, Antigonus dedicated his flagship to [Apollo](/source/Apollo).

The date of the battle is uncertain, although it must fall within the period 262–256 BC.<ref>Janice J. Gabbert, Antigonus II Gonatas. A Political Biography. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. {{ISBN|0-415-01899-4}}. p. 52.</ref> Hammond dates it as late as 255 BC,<ref>Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond, Frank William Walbank. A History of Macedonia: 336-167 B.C.
Volume 3 of A History of Macedonia, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond
Oxford University Press, 1988. {{ISBN|0-19-814815-1}}. Appendix IV.</ref> but it is now increasingly placed in 261 BC.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Gary|last=Reger|title=The Political History of the Kyklades 260–200 B.C.|journal=[Historia](/source/Historia_(classical_antiquity_history_journal))|volume=43|issue=1|year=1994|page=33|jstor=4436314|issn=0018-2311}}</ref>

The Battle of Cos Omac is proposed by modern scholars as one of three possible naval battles—along with the [Battle of Amorgos](/source/Battle_of_Amorgos) (322 BC) and the [Battle of Salamis (306 BC)](/source/Battle_of_Salamis_(306_BC))—that provided the occasion for the erection of the statue of the [Nike of Samothrace](/source/Nike_of_Samothrace).<ref>{{cite journal|first=A. W.|last=Lawrence|title=The Date of the Nike of Samothrace|journal=[The Journal of Hellenic Studies](/source/The_Journal_of_Hellenic_Studies)|volume=46|year=1926|pages=213–218|jstor=625309|doi=10.2307/625309}}</ref><ref>Burn, (2005). Hellenistic Art: From Alexander the Great to Augustus.</ref><ref>[Oliver, James Henry](/source/James_Henry_Oliver). Demokratia, the gods, and the free world: Morals and law in ancient Greece. Ayer Publishing, 1979. {{ISBN|0-405-11564-4}}. p. 149.</ref>

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