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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Philopoemen (section The Battle of Mantinea)
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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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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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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Arcadian Cults of the Mistresses (section Mantinea)
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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Demonax (lawmaker) (redirect from Demonax of Mantinea)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Hellespontus Nicaea or Antigonia, Bithynia, now İznik, Bursa Province, Turkey Mantinea or Antigonia, Arcadia, Greece Antigonia (fish), a genus of fish This disambiguation...
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hegemony after the Battle of Leuctra (371 BC), but after the Battle of Mantinea (362 BC), all of Greece was so weakened that no one state could claim pre-eminence...
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Theban contingent sent to the support of the Spartans during the Siege of Mantinea, where he was saved, when dangerously wounded by the Arcadians, by Epaminondas...
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Spartans under the Spartan regent and general, Machanidas, in the battle of Mantinea. Machanidas is killed by Philopoemen during the battle. Nabis, a Syrian...
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