Battle of Tanagra
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Tanagra · the battle at Tanagra · the engagement at Tanagra
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1 expressionthe Battle of Tanagra1 mention
Menexenus (Greek)
Thereupon, when war had broken out, they encountered the Lacedaemonians at Tanagra while fighting in defence of the liberties of the Boeotians;
in the texts
Menexenus
Indecisive battle against the Lacedaemonians fought in defense of Boeotian freedom.
Thereupon, when war had broken out, they encountered the Lacedaemonians at Tanagra while fighting in defence of the liberties of the Boeotians;
Pericles
Battle between Athens and the invading Lacedaemonians in which Cimon sought reinstatement and Cimon's friends died fighting alongside Pericles.
And there fell in this battle all the friends of Cimon to a man, whom Pericles had accused with him of too great love for Sparta.
But in the meanwhile the Lacedaemonians invaded the district of Tanagra with a great army, and the Athenians straightway sallied out against them.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A combined Athenian land-and-sea operation that ravages Tanagra and defeats a Boeotian relief force.
The next day, after defeating in battle those of the Tanagraeans and the Thebans who had come out against them, and after taking some arms, and erecting a trophy, they returned, one party to the city, the other to their fleet.
while the Athenians in the city, on a given signal, met them at the same place by land in full force, under the command of Hipponicus son of Callias, and Eurymedon son of Thucles.