Delium
place · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the sanctuary of Apollo
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A sanctuary of Apollo in Tanagran territory that the Athenians plan to seize and fortify as part of the Boeotian conspiracy, ultimately occupied and fortified by Hippocrates.
and having encamped his army, proceeded to fortify Delium, the sanctuary of Apollo, in the following manner.
On the other hand, the Athenians were to seize Delium, the sanctuary of Apollo in the territory of Tanagra, looking towards Euboea;
that the Boeotians might not oppose them in a body at Delium, but have to attend to their own respective neighbourhoods that were being revolutionized.
Against Alcibiades
Site of an Athenian military engagement where Hipponicus, father of Alcibiades's wife, died while serving as a general.
yet after Hipponicus had lost his life as one of the generals at Delium, he exacted another ten, on the ground that Hipponicus had agreed to add this further sum as soon as Alcibiades should have a child by his daughter.
Apology
A location where Socrates served as a soldier and remained at his post.
So I should have done a terrible thing, if, when the commanders whom you chose to command me stationed me, both at Potidaea and at Amphipolis and at Delium, I remained where they stationed me, like anybody else, and ran the risk of death, but when the god gave me a station, as I believed and understood, with orders to spend my life in philosophy and in examining myself and others, then I were to d …
Laches
Site of the Athenian defeat and retreat in which Laches and Socrates both took part, cited by Laches as proof of Socrates's courage.
He accompanied me in the retreat from Delium, and I assure you that if the rest had chosen to be like him, our city would be holding up her head and would not then have had such a terrible fall.