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    Battle of Mantinea

    event · 3 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    Mantinea · battle of Mantinea · struggle at Mantinea · that battle · the battle · the battle of Mantinea · the engagement at Mantinea · the field of battle · the greatest battle for a long time amongst the Greeks

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    The Battle of Mantinea2 mentions

    History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek) · Hellenica (Greek)

    Of such a character then, and answering as nearly as possible to this description, was the battle—the greatest that had occurred for a very long time amongst the Greeks, and fought by the most considerable states.
    book 5

    in the texts

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    A battle in which the united Peloponnesian states, organized in part through Alcibiades's diplomacy, fought the Lacedaemonians.

    For having united the most powerful states of the Peloponnese, without any great danger or expense to you, I brought the Lacedaemonians to a single day's struggle for their all at Mantinea;
    book 6
    Of such a character then, and answering as nearly as possible to this description, was the battle—the greatest that had occurred for a very long time amongst the Greeks, and fought by the most considerable states.
    book 5
    and the Lacedaemonians, on going back again from the water to the temple of Hercules, into their old encampment, see the enemy at a short distance from them, all by this time in order of battle, and advanced from the hill.
    book 5

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    Past battle after which a thirty years' truce was concluded.

    It was also common talk that the thirty years’ truce, concluded after the battle of Mantinea, had expired this year, so far as the Mantineans were concerned.
    book 5
    but the deity so ordered it that both parties set up a trophy as though victorious and neither tried to hinder those who set them up, that both gave back the dead under a truce as though victorious, and both received back their dead under a truce as though defeated, and that while each party claimed to be victorious, neither was found to be any better off, as regards either additional territory, o …
    book 7
    And by so doing he caused among most of the enemy a relaxation of their mental readiness for fighting, and likewise a relaxation of their readiness as regards their array for battle.
    book 7

    For the People of MegalopolisClassical · Greek

    The past conflict in which Athens and others shared danger, now used in arguments about loyalty and peace.

    In the one case, you will show yourselves ready to help the Arcadians and eager to confirm the peace for which you faced danger on the field of battle.
    ch. 1
    But perhaps we shall admit that that is how matters ought to stand, but feel that it is monstrous to choose as our allies the men whose ranks we faced at Mantinea, and even to help them against those with whom we shared the dangers of that battle.
    ch. 1