Battle of Coronea
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
battle · plain of Coronea · the battle at Coronea · the battle of Coronea
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Concerning the Team of Horses
The battle in which the father of Alcibiades the elder was killed, leaving him an orphan raised by Pericles.
My father himself was left an orphan (for his father died in battle at Coronea) and became the ward of Pericles, whom all would acknowledge to have been the most moderate, the most just, and the wisest of the citizens.
Agesilaus
The battle in Boeotia where Agesilaus defeats a Greek coalition but is wounded and demonstrates reverence toward suppliants in a temple.
The two armies met in the plain of Coronea, Agesilaus advancing from the Cephisus, the Thebans and their allies from Helicon.
but he himself had been carried wounded to his battle-line, when some horsemen rode up, and told him that eighty of the enemy retaining their arms had taken cover in the temple, and they asked what they should do.
Early next morning Agesilaus ordered Gylis, the polemarch, to draw up the army in battle order and to set up a trophy, and to command every man to wear a wreath in honour of the god and all the flute-players to play.
Hellenica
A major and unusually fierce battle at Coronea between Agesilaus's army and the Theban-led coalition, ending in a hard-won Lacedaemonian victory.
and I will also describe the battle, and how it proved to be like no other of the battles of our time.
And in the morning Agesilaus gave orders that Gylis, the polemarch, should draw up the army in line of battle and set up a trophy, that all should deck themselves with garlands in honour of the god, and that all the flute-players should play.
Now when the victory had fallen to Agesilaus and he himself had been carried, wounded, to the phalanx, some of the horsemen rode up and told him that about eighty of the enemy, still armed, had taken shelter in the temple of Athena, and asked him what they should do.