Aetolia
place · 5 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Aetolians' country
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The rugged, village-based territory of the Aetolian peoples, site of Demosthenes's disastrous invasion.
in the morning he set out and marched into Aetolia.
for, when harassed by the bowmen, the Aetolians, being a light-armed force, retired.
Great numbers of the allies were slain, and of the Athenians themselves about a hundred and twenty heavy-armed—so many in number, and all in the prime of their youth.
Tusculan Disputations
Greek region where the consul Nobilior campaigned, taking Ennius along.
but that no honour attached to this calling is shown by a speech of Cato's, in which he cast it up as a reproach to Marcus Nobilior that he had taken poets with him into his province — and that consul had, as we know, taken Ennius into Aetolia.
Phoenissae
Region named by Creon as the next stage of Menoeceus's planned flight from Thebes.
To Aetolia.
Suppliants
Homeland of Diomedes, named in Athena's prophecy of the future assault on Thebes.
thou too, Aegialeus, shalt take thy father’s place and in thy youth command the host, and with thee Tydeus’ son marching from Aetolia,—him whom his father named Diomedes.
Iliad
Region named as the homeland of Thoas, who kills Peirous.
As he was leaving the body, Thoas of Aetolia struck him in the chest near the nipple, and the point fixed itself in his lungs.