Leuctra
place · 6 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
in the texts
Hellenica
Battle location named in the retrospective account of Cleonymus' death.
And he did not prove false to his words, for not only did he act in all ways as it is deemed honourable for a citizen of Sparta to act while he lived, but at Leuctra, fighting in defence of his king with Deinon the polemarch, he fell three times and was the first of the citizens to lose his life in the midst of the enemy.
After accomplishing this exploit and marching up from the sea-coast, he encamped at Leuctra, in the territory of Thespiae.
When, namely, Archidamus had led back his army from the relief expedition to Leuctra, the Athenians, taking thought of the fact that the Peloponnesians still counted themselves bound to follow the Lacedaemonians, and that the latter were not yet in the same situation to which they had brought the Athenians, invited to Athens all the cities which wished to participate in the peace which the King had sent down.
On the Embassy
Place of a Lacedaemonian defeat used as an example of changing policy.
You, gentlemen, once fought the Lacedaemonians, and then after their misfortune at Leuctra you aided the same people.
Stromata
Site of a battle used as a chronological marker in the Greek reckoning.
and to the battle at Leuctra, thirty-four years;
Antidosis
Battle site invoked as the later disaster of the Lacedaemonians.
while, as for the Lacedaemonians, no man since that time has seen a ship of theirs voyage this side of Malea nor any land force advance beyond the Isthmus, and anyone can see in this fact the cause of their disaster at Leuctra.
Archidamus
The place of the recent Spartan defeat used as a reference point for misfortune.
but that if through fear of the dangers which now threaten us we relinquish anything that is ours, we shall justify the boasts of the Thebans, and erect against ourselves a trophy far more imposing and conspicuous than that which was raised at Leuctra;
Panathenaicus
The battle site associated with Sparta's lasting fall from its former position.
More than that, our city recovered her power in less years than it took to overthrow it, while the Spartans after their defeat at Leuctra have not been able even in a period many times as long to regain the position from which they fell, but are even now no better off than they were then.