Nemea
place · 3 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the sacred precinct of the Nemean Jupiter
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A site near Argos where the Argives initially position themselves against the Lacedaemonian advance and where the assembled coalition army is described at its most impressive.
And now the Boeotians, Megareans, and Sicyonians advanced, as they had been ordered, towards Nemea, and found the Argives no longer there;
and it appeared such especially while it was still all united at Nemea.
The Argives, having discovered it, advanced from Nemea, when it was now day, to their succour;
Hellenica
A place where Epaminondas halts his advance, hoping to intercept the Athenians, before continuing toward Tegea.
But when Epaminondas heard that the Athenians had given up the plan of proceeding by land and were preparing to go by sea, with the intention of marching through Lacedaemon to the aid of the Arcadians, under these circumstances he set forth from Nemea and arrived at Tegea.
but when he arrived at Nemea he delayed there, hoping to catch the Athenians as they passed by, and estimating that this would be a great achievement, not only in the view of his people’s allies, so as to encourage them, but also in that of their opponents, so that they would fall into despondency — in a word, that every loss the Athenians suffered was a gain for the Thebans.
And as the two armies marched on, the Corinthians and their allies were in the district of Nemea, and the Lacedaemonians and their allies at Sicyon, at almost the same time.