Trophy
object · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
trophy · a trophy
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A monument erected on a battlefield to commemorate a claimed military victory, raised repeatedly by both Corinthians/Athenians and Syracusans in this window.
After the Syracusans had sunk seven Athenian ships and disabled many more, having taken some of the men prisoners and killed others, they retired, and erected trophies for both the engagements;
But when the Peloponnesians had sailed off, and their troops had dispersed, the Athenians erected a trophy on their side also, as having gained the victory, in Achaea, at about twenty stades distance from Erineus, where the Corinthians were stationed.
The next day the Syracusans erected two trophies, one on Epipolae, where the enemy's approaches had been made, and the other on the spot where the Boeotians first withstood them;
Anabasis
Monument erected by the Greeks after the battle.
So after returning to the spot where the first encounter took place and erecting a trophy, they set out on their way back to the sea at about sunset;
Hellenica
A military victory monument set up after engagements or standoffs.
nevertheless, the Thebans set up a trophy, because after climbing the hill the Sciritans had retired.
And at that time he was defeated, and Timotheus set up a trophy at Alyzeia.
But when the ships of Timotheus had been hauled up and were being refitted, and meanwhile the six Ambraciot triremes had joined Nicolochus, he sailed to Alyzeia, where Timotheus was.