Chaeronea
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battle at Chaeronea
in the texts
Against Leocrates
The site of the battle in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Macedon, whose aftermath frames the whole prosecution.
After the disaster of Chaeronea the Athenian people passed a decree forbidding persons to leave the city or to remove their wives or children.
You would do well to remember this and punish with death this man who did not even deign to help collect the bodies or attend the funeral of those who at Chaeronea died for freedom and the safety of our people;
Would any of them, remembering their contemporaries, comrades in arms at Chaeronea who shared the same dangers, absolve the man who has betrayed the graves they lie in?
Against Ctesiphon
Battle site or event marker used to divide Demosthenes' political career.
and the third period, the period of war, up to the events of Chaeronea;
Orations
Site of the battle where Alexander is said to have caused the victory while Philip hesitated.
So it was with Alexander at first, so that they say he was the cause of the battle and the victory at Chaeronea, when his father shrank from the danger.
Against Athenogenes
The site of the decisive battle against Philip of Macedon, which Athenogenes avoided by leaving Athens for Troezen.
During the war against Philip he left the city just before the battle and did not serve with you at Chaeronea.
History of the Peloponnesian War
A frontier town of Boeotia near Phocis, targeted for betrayal in the same conspiracy that aimed at Siphae and Delium.
while Chaeronea, which was dependent on what was formerly called the Minyan, but now the Boeotian Orchomenus, was to be delivered up by another party in that city;
Accordingly, succours being brought by all the Boeotians, (for Hippocrates was not yet in their country to make a diversion,) Siphae and Chaeronea were secured by surprise;