sentences:  The Persians occupied Samothrace in 508 BC, it later passed under Athenian control, and was a member of the Delian League in the 5th century BC.It was subjugated by Philip II, and from then till 168 BC it was under Macedonian suzerainty.With the battle of Pydna Samothrace became independent, a condition that ended when Vespasian absorbed the island in the Roman Empire in AD 70.