Battle of Coronea
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
battle · plain of Coronea · the battle at Coronea · the battle of Coronea
in the texts
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.
Without a moment’s delay, in full view of the enemy, he drew up his army for battle.
There was no shouting, nor was there silence, but the strange noise that wrath and battle together will produce.
The two armies met in the plain of Coronea, Agesilaus advancing from the Cephisus, the Thebans and their allies from Helicon.
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.
Thereupon some of the mercenaries were already garlanding Agesilaus, when a man brought him word that the Thebans had cut their way through the Orchomenians and were in among the baggage train.
For while he might have let the men pass by who were trying to break through and then have followed them and overcome those in the rear, he did not do this, but crashed against the Thebans front to front;