Tanagra
place · 5 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A town in Boeotia, the site of an Athenian land expedition and victory over the Tanagraeans and Thebans.
and having landed at night, the heavy-armed immediately marched from their ships to Tanagra in Boeotia;
Having pitched their camp for that day in the territory of Tanagra, they laid it waste, and passed the night there.
Now during the days thus employed, the Boeotians were mustering at Tanagra;
Against Aristogeiton I
Boeotian city used to identify the prison victim.
Before Aristogeiton was released, a man of Tanagra was thrown into the prison until he could find bail.
But the Tanagran, a fresh-caught fish, was getting the better of the defendant, who was thoroughly pickled, having been long in jail.
Against Philippides
A city in Boeotia, named alongside Thebes in a fragmentary passage.
each of them gives, one in Thebes, another in Tanagra
Plataicus
A city cited as having been compelled into submission to Theban hegemony.
For when they were unable to gain our consent, they should have gone no farther than to compel us to submit to the hegemony of Thebes as they compelled Thespiae and Tanagra;
Hellenica
A Boeotian city held by Hypatodorus and other friends of the Lacedaemonians.
Having done this, he laid waste the region to the east of the city of the Thebans, as far as the territory of the Tanagraeans;