Pelopidas
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Aristocrates
Theban leader imprisoned by Alexander of Thessaly.
At the time when he had imprisoned Pelopidas, and was holding him captive, when he was the most bitter enemy of the Thebans, when his feelings towards you were so fraternal that he applied to you for a commander, when you gave aid to his arms, when it was Alexander here and Alexander there,—why, gracious heavens!
Orations
Theban statesman with whom Philip associated while a hostage in Thebes.
And yet formerly he himself, while a hostage in Thebes, associated with Pelopidas, an educated man — so that they said Pelopidas even became his lover — and he both beheld the deeds of Epaminondas and heard his discourses, who not by chance attained so great power among the Greeks and wrought so great a change as to overthrow the Lacedaemonians, who had ruled so long, but by having associated with …
Hellenica
Leading Theban statesman sent as envoy to the Persian King, who wins great favor and dictates peace terms favorable to Thebes, including Messenian independence.
Pelopidas was therefore asked by the King what he desired to have written for him;
For he was able to say that his people were the only ones among the Greeks who had fought on the side of the King at Plataea, that they had never afterwards undertaken a campaign against the King, and that the Lacedaemonians had made war upon them for precisely the reason that they had declined to go with Agesilaus against him and had refused to permit Agesilaus to sacrifice to Artemis at Aulis, t …
and there went up thither Pelopidas for the Thebans, Antiochus, the pancratiast, for the Arcadians, and Archidamus for the Eleans;