athenians

Life events

• The Lacedaemonians defeated the opposing troops in battle, inflicting heavy casualties.(Book 4, section 2, part 2/2)
  • With: Lacedaemonians Argives Corinthians Thebans
  • “The end of it all was that the defeated troops in the first instance made for safety to the walls of their city”
• The Arcarnanians, aided by Athenian and Boeotian contingents, threatened the Achaean possession.(Book 4, section 6 · 📍 Calydon)
  • With: Achaeans Arcarnanians Boeotians
  • “The reason was, that the Arcarnanians were threatening the place with an army, and were aided by contingents from Athens and Boeotia, who were anxious to help their allies.”
• The Lacedaemonians and Athenians and their allies administered and accepted the peace oaths.(Book 6, section 3, part 2/2)
  • With: Lacedaemonians
  • “On these terms the oaths were administered and accepted by the Lacedaemonians on behalf of themselves and their allies, and by the Athenians and their allies separately state by state.”
• Peace was made by the rest, while the Thebans remained the sole point of dispute.(Book 6, section 3, part 2/2)
  • With: Lacedaemonians Thebans
  • “So it came to pass that the rest of the world made peace, the sole point of dispute being confined to the Thebans;”
• The Athenians withdrew their garrisons and recalled Iphicrates with his fleet.(Book 6, section 4, part 1/3)
  • With: Iphicrates
  • “In consequence of the peace the Athenians proceeded to withdraw their garrisons from the different sates, and sent to recall Iphicrates with his fleet;”
• The Athenians forced Iphicrates to restore everything captured after the solemn undertaking.(Book 6, section 4, part 1/3 · 📍 Lacedaemon)
  • With: Iphicrates
  • “besides which they forced him to restore everything captured subsequently to the late solemn undertaking at Lacedaemon.”
• The Phliasian cavalry and picked troop, aided by Athenian knights, charged the invading forces and forced them to withdraw.(Book 7, section 2, part 1/2 · 📍 Phlius)
  • With: phliasians Argives Arcadians
  • “They made it so hot for the enemy that for the rest of that day he was forced to retire under the mountain ridges, and to hold aloof as if afraid to trample down the corn-crops of a friendly people on the flat below.”
• The victorious Theban hoplites failed to pursue or kill the fleeing opposing troops.(Book 7, section 5, part 2/2 · 📍 Mantinea)
  • With: Thebans
  • “not a single man afterwards did the victorious hoplites slay, not an inch forward did they advance from the ground on which the collision took place.”
• The Theban light infantry and cavalry footmen reached the left wing, where most were killed by the Athenians.(Book 7, section 5, part 2/2 · 📍 Mantinea)
  • With: Thebans
  • “here they encountered the Athenians, and most of them were cut down.”
• Both sides claimed victory, raised trophies, and returned the enemy's dead under a truce.(Book 7, section 5, part 2/2 · 📍 Mantinea)
  • With: Thebans
  • “both belligerents alike set up trophies as claiming victory, and neither interfered with the other in the act. Both parties alike gave back their enemy's dead under a truce”

Book 1, section 5

• with Dorieus (The Athenians had banished Dorieus and sentenced him to death.) “He was the Rhodian, who some while back had been banished from Athens and from his native city by the Athenians, when sentence of death was passed upon him and his family.”

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