Coronea
place · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
plain of Coronea
in the texts
On the False Embassy
Contested city involved in the Theban gains and Phocian losses.
They held Orchomenus, and Coronea, and Tilphosaeum;
they have also gained Orchomenus, Coronea, Corsia, Tilphosaeum, and as much of the Phocian territory as they want.
but Philip has made the Thebans dangerously strong, he has exterminated the Phocians, and, instead of fortifying Thespiae and Plataea, he has enslaved Orchomenus and Coronea as well.
On the Peace
A Boeotian place whose control is discussed in relation to Theban ambitions and Philip's concessions.
Hence today the Thebans have been partially successful in recovering territory, but have failed lamentably to win honor and glory;
Now some people actually go so far as to say that Philip was compelled, against his real wishes, to hand over Orchomenus and Coronea to the Thebans.
Second Philippic
A city transferred to Thebes by Philip according to the orator.
The man who orders the Lacedaemonians to give up their claims to Messene, how could he pretend that he handed over Orchomenus and Coronea to Thebes because he thought it an act of justice?
Concerning the Team of Horses
The site of the battle in which the father of Alcibiades the elder died, leaving him an orphan raised by Pericles.
My father himself was left an orphan (for his father died in battle at Coronea) and became the ward of Pericles, whom all would acknowledge to have been the most moderate, the most just, and the wisest of the citizens.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Boeotian town, site of the Theban victory over Athens recalled twice in the Theban speech.
some of whose fathers fell at Coronea, in bringing Boeotia into connexion with you;
At any rate, after the Mede had retreated, and it had regained its laws, you ought to consider, that when the Athenians subsequently attacked the rest of Greece, and endeavoured to bring our country under their power, and by the aid of faction were already in possession of the greater part of it, we fought and conquered them at Coronea, and liberated Boeotia, and are now heartily joining in the li …
Hellenica
Plain in Boeotia where Agesilaus's army meets and defeats the Theban-led coalition force.
They met on the plain of Coronea, those with Agesilaus coming from the Cephisus, and those with the Thebans from Mount Helicon.