Mantinea
place · 5 works · 10 mentions · 15 anchored passages
Mantinean territory · city of the Mantineans
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Hellenica
Arcadian city and territory punished by Spartan action.
It was also common talk that the thirty years’ truce, concluded after the battle of Mantinea, had expired this year, so far as the Mantineans were concerned.
And when he had entered Mantinean territory, he first laid waste the land;
After this the wall was torn down and Mantinea was divided into four separate villages, just as the people had dwelt in ancient times.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The city of the Mantineans, one of the four parties to the new hundred years' treaty.
That the oaths shall be renewed by the Athenians, on going to Elis, Mantinea, and Argos, thirty days before the Olympic festival;
by the Mantineans, in the temple of Jupiter in the market-place:
At the time that the Argives were in Epidaurus, deputations from the states assembled at Mantinea, on the invitation of the Athenians.
On Moral Ends
Site of the battle where Epaminondas defeated the Spartans and was mortally wounded
Of these, the one, when he had conquered the Lacedaemonians at Mantinea, and saw himself dying of a grievous wound, as soon as he came to himself asked whether his shield was safe.
For the People of Megalopolis
The place of a battle where Athenians and others faced danger together.
But perhaps we shall admit that that is how matters ought to stand, but feel that it is monstrous to choose as our allies the men whose ranks we faced at Mantinea, and even to help them against those with whom we shared the dangers of that battle.
In the one case, you will show yourselves ready to help the Arcadians and eager to confirm the peace for which you faced danger on the field of battle.
Panegyricus
A Greek city sacked and razed by the Lacedaemonians in violation of a concluded peace.
they sacked and razed the city of Mantinea, after peace had been concluded;