Editing Andros (section)

===Antiquity===
[[File:Hermes 090579.jpg|thumb|180px|left|[[Hermes of Andros|Statue of Hermes Chthonios]] (Roman copy of 1st AD), [[Archaeological Museum of Andros]]]]

In ancient times, the island contained an [[Ionia]]n population, perhaps with an admixture of [[Thrace|Thracian]] ancestry.{{Citation needed|reason=This claim needs a reliable source.|date=March 2014}} Though it has been proposed that Andros was originally dependent on [[Eretria]], {{Citation needed|reason=This claim needs a reliable source as the evidence is highly debatable|date=January 2018}} by the 7th century BC it had become sufficiently prosperous to send out several colonies, to [[Chalcidice]] ([[Acanthus (Greece)|Acanthus]], [[Stageira]], [[Argilus]], [[Sane (Acte)|Sane]]). The ruins of [[Paleopolis, Andros|Palaeopolis]], the ancient capital, are on the west coast; the town possessed a famous temple, dedicated to [[Dionysus]]. In 480 BC, it supplied ships to [[Xerxes I|Xerxes]] and was subsequently harried by the Greek fleet. Though enrolled in the [[Delian League]], it remained disaffected towards [[Classical Athens|Athens]], and in 477 had to be coerced by the establishment of a [[cleruchy]] on the island; nevertheless, in 411 Andros proclaimed its freedom, and in 408 withstood an Athenian attack. As a member of the second Delian League, it was again controlled by a garrison and an [[archon]]. In the [[Hellenistic]] period, Andros was contended for as a frontier-post by the two naval powers of the [[Aegean Sea]], [[Macedon]] and [[Ptolemaic Egypt]]. In 333, it received a Macedonian garrison from [[Antipater]]; in 308 it was freed by [[Ptolemy I of Egypt]]. In the [[Chremonidean War]] (266–263) it passed again to Macedon after a [[Battle of Andros (246 BC)|battle]] off its shores.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} The Ptolemaic empire was at its height, with a considerable fleet stationed at Andros.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hughs|first1=Benjamin Acousta|title=Callimachus in Context|date=2012|publisher=United Kingdom University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-1107470644}}</ref>

In 200, it was captured by a combined [[Roman Republic|Roman]], [[Pergamum|Pergamene]] and [[Rhodes|Rhodian]] fleet, and remained a possession of the [[Attalid kingdom]] until its dissolution in 133 BC, when it was granted to Rome.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref name="Archipelago"/>