Delium
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 7 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.
On the other hand, the Athenians were to seize Delium, the sanctuary of Apollo in the territory of Tanagra, looking towards Euboea;
And should the attempt succeed, and Delium be fortified, they confidently hoped, that even if no change in their constitution were immediately made by the Boeotians, yet when these posts were occupied by Athenian garrisons, and the land was being plundered, and the several parties had a rallying place close at hand, that things would not remain in their present position, but that, in the course of …
At the very commencement of the following winter, when the towns in Boeotia were to be delivered up to Hippocrates and Demosthenes, the Athenian generals, and Demosthenes was to repair with his ships to Siphae, Hippocrates to Delium;
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 …