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    Mantineia (redirect from Mantinea)
    Mantineia (also Mantinea /ˌmæntəˈniːə/; Greek: Μαντίνεια; also Koine Greek Ἀντιγόνεια Antigoneia) was a city in ancient Arcadia, Greece, which was the...
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    The Battle of Mantinea was fought on 4 July 362 BC between the Thebans, led by Epaminondas and supported by the Arcadians, Argives, Messenians, Thessalians...
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  • Battle of Mantinea may refer to one of several battles fought near Mantineia (Mantinea) in Ancient Greece: Battle of Mantinea (418 BC), victory of Sparta...
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    Diotima of Mantinea (/ˌdaɪəˈtiːmə/; Greek: Διοτίμα; Latin: Diotīma) is the name or pseudonym of an ancient Greek character in Plato's dialogue Symposium...
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    The Siege of Mantinea occurred in 385 BC, and resulted in a victory of the Spartans over the city of Mantinea, which was defeated and dismembered. On this...
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  • The first Battle of Mantinea was fought in 418 BC during the Peloponnesian War. In this battle, Sparta and its Peloponnesian allies defeated an allied...
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  • Lastheneia (or Lasthenia) of Mantinea (Greek: Λασθένεια Μαντινική) was one of Plato's female students. She was born in Mantinea, an ancient city in Arcadia...
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    Tegea, supported by Mantinea, instigated the formation of an Arcadian alliance. This led to the Spartans declaring war on Mantinea, whereupon the majority...
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  • Lycomedes (died 366 BC), known through Xenophon, was a Mantinean politician, who led the effort to found the Arcadian League in 371 and 370 BC, and was...
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    this period, notably the battle of Mantinea in 418 BC, won by Sparta against an ad-hoc alliance of Elis, Mantinea (both former Spartan allies), Argos...
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  • Anthusa of Mantinea (Greek: Ανθούσα Μαντίνειας), also called Anthusa the Confessor was an anchoress and abbess in Constantinople during the 8th century...
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    Peloponnese, where Sparta was fighting for survival. In 362 BC, the Battle of Mantinea was a new victory for Thebes, but Epaminondas was also killed. The conflict...
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    formation of a Theban empire. With the death of Epaminondas at the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC), the city sank again to the position of a secondary power. In...
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    daughters, the victory of Leuctra and the victory at Mantinea". Despite the victory at Mantinea, in the end, the Thebans abandoned their policy of intervention...
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    forces; in 362 they were defeated by Thebes at the Battle of Mantinea. In the aftermath of Mantinea, none of the major Greek states were able to dominate. Though...
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  • came into conflict with Mantinea. At the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC), the cities of the league fought against each other, Mantinea fighting alongside Sparta...
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    The Battle of Mantinea was fought in 207 BC between Sparta under the tyrant Machanidas, as part of the Aetolian League, and the Achaean League whose forces...
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    on a child, Pelops, for whom Machanidas ruled as regent. The Battle of Mantinea was fought in 207 BC between the Spartans led by Machanidas and the Achaean...
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  • Demonax (Greek: Δημώναξ, Dēmōnax, gen.: Δημώνακτος) was an ancient Greek lawmaker of the style of Solon and Lycurgus, known for reforming the constitution...
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    900s BC • Messenian War 685–668 BC • Battle of Thermopylae 480 BC • Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC • Battle of Mantinea 362 BC • Annexed by Achaea 192 BC...
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    neighbours of Argos rapidly concluded treaties with Sparta on the Tegean model: Mantinea, Phlieus, Corinth, Epidaurus and the other cities of Argolis. They were...
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    the strongest were the cities which controlled the few fertile valleys; Mantinea, Tegea and Orchomenos. The remaining towns were more mountainous or had...
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  • with Persia. The outbreak of civil war in the Arcadian league leads to Mantinea fighting alongside Sparta and Athens, while Tegea and other members of...
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    months earlier, so any seed-sowing connection was not intrinsic." For Mantinea, see Brill's New Pauly "Persephone", II D. Fossum, "The Myth of the Eternal...
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  • the Greater Rites...” Festivals honouring the Mistresses took place in Mantinea. Pausanias describes a sanctuary located “after the ruins of Nestane”,...
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    Peloponnesian Wars were not documented. Still, according to Thucydides, at Mantinea in 418 BC, there were seven lochoi present, each subdivided into four pentekostyes...
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    mountain called Artemisius, (a range which divides Argolis from the plain of Mantinea) before finally capturing the hind near the river Ladon. Euripides says...
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    Leuctra in 371 BC to their defeat of a coalition of Peloponnesian armies at Mantinea in 362 BC, though Thebes sought to maintain its position until finally...
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    from its obligations as an Athenian ally. Following the 418 BC Battle of Mantinea, the victorious Spartans formed an alliance with Argos, a military pact...
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  • Human sexuality portal Greece portal Color wheel theory of love Diotima of Mantinea The Four Loves by C. S. Lewis Greek love Intellectual virtue – Greek words...
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