Thyrea
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Thyreae · Thyrean country · the Cynurian territory
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A territory on the frontier of Argolis and Laconia given by the Lacedaemonians to the expelled Aeginetans.
while to the Aeginetans who were expelled the Lacedaemonians gave Thyrea to live in, and the territory to occupy, as well on the ground of their quarrel with the Athenians, as because they had been benefactors to themselves at the time of the earthquake and the insurrection of the Helots.
The Argives, after this, made an incursion into the Thyrean country, which lies on, their borders, and took much booty from the Lacedaemonians, which was sold for no less than five and twenty talents.
In the mean time the Athenians landed, and advanced straightway with all their forces, and took Thyrea.
The Histories
Disputed borderland between Argos and Sparta, contested first by a battle of champions and then by a general engagement won by the Lacedaemonians.
Neither could gain advantage in the battle;
Then the two Argives, believing themselves victors, ran to Argos;
for this was a part of the Argive territory which the Lacedaemonians had cut off and occupied.
Archidamus
A battlefield associated with a Spartan victory by three hundred men.
remember the three hundred who at Thyrea defeated the whole Argive force in battle;