Granted autonomy by the Athenian general Cimon in 469 B.C., the city again came under the sway of the Persians when the latter defeated Athens in the war of 411 B.C. About a century later, in 333 B.C., Phaselis hosted a very famous guest: Alexander the Great. Having first entered Anatolia in 334 B.C., the Macedonian king received an invitation from numerous cities but chose to winter in Phaselis, the fame of which had reached him earlier. The sources recount that while he was in the city, Alexander frequently visited the temples of Athena and Heracles as well as the statue of the philosopher Theodectes which stood in the heart of town. Considering that the broken spear of Achilles was kept in the Temple of Athena, these particular visits may be considered the homage of one great warrior to another. After the death of Alexander, Phaselis, together with all of Lycia, came under the dominion first of Egypt's Ptolemaic Kingdom, then of the Syrian king Antiochus III, and finally of Rhodes. In 168 B.C. it achieved independence and joined the Lycian League. Starting in the early 1st century B.C., however,