CHAERONEA

kĕrənēˈə, ancient town of Boeotia, Greece, in the Cephissus (now Kifisós) River valley and NW of Thebes. There the Athenians and Thebans were defeated (338 b.c.) by the Macedonians under Philip II, and in 86 b.c. Sulla defeated the army of Mithradates VI of Pontus under Archelaus. Chaeronea was the birthplace of Plutarch.

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books on: Chaeronea  - 547 results

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Readings in Greek History, from Homer to the Battle of Chaeronea
Book by Ida Carleton Thallon; Ginn, 1914
Subjects: Greece--History
...was not the state AEschines. 5. CHAERONEA AND ITS RESULTS We have a very meager narrative of the battle of Chaeronea in Diodorus , but it is interesting...PLUTARCH, Alexander, 9 At the battle of Chaeronea, which his father fought against...
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Great Captains of Antiquity
Book by Richard A. Gabriel; Greenwood Press, 2001
...dead. Nearby the statue of the Lion of Chaeronea, itself a lonely sentinel, still stands...that day that he wept. The Battle of Chaeronea was one of the most important battles...affairs that it had played for 400 years. Chaeronea was notable as well for the tactical...
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Aeschines and Athenian Politics
Book by Edward M. Harris; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Aeschines, Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Democracy--History, Demosthenes, Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C, Philip--Ii--King Of Macedonia--382-336 B.C
...Persia in 340s, 108 -9; defeats Greeks at Chaeronea, 133 ; founds League of Corinth, 135...fleet, 124 ; diplomacy toward Athens before Chaeronea, 132 -33; policy toward Athens after Chaeronea, 134 ; general attitude toward Athens...
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Plutarch: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Book by John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, Plutarch; Modern Library, 1932
Subjects: Greece--Biography, Rome--Biography
...came to him after the battle won at Chaeronea, and declared that Trophonius had foretold...the holy rites ended, held on towards Chaeronea to receive the forces there and view...whom ancient record makes founder of Chaeronea. Others assert that the cow, which...
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Oxford Readings in the Attic Orators
Book by Edwin Carawan; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--Intellectual Life, Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Oratory, Ancient, Political Oratory--Greece--Athens, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism
...execution. This enables him to make Chaeronea simultaneously the natural culmination...it correct in the years leading up to Chaeronea, when Athens made sign- ificant gains...flawless. How then did the defeat at Chaeronea and Athens subjection to Macedon come...
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Philip II of Macedonia
Journal article by J. Boone Bartholomees Jr.; Parameters, Vol. 39, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Philip II of Macedonia (Biography)--Book reviews
...descriptions of battles, especially Chaeronea, which is by far Philips most famous...treatment of Athens and Thebes after Chaeronea, the estrangement of Alexander from...general maps, a diagram of the Battle of Chaeronea, and a good chronology keep the reader...
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Alexander the Great-or the Terrible?
Journal article by Brooke Allen; The Hudson Review, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Alexander the Great (356-23 BC), Personal profiles, Public figures
...and autonomy under Alexander, and as for the mainland Greeks, their autonomy had been effectively crushed in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C. (won by Philip and Alexander jointly) and by the destruction of Thebes three years later. The Asian Greeks...
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Typological Identity and Syntactic Suspension in Milton's Sonnet 10
Journal article by Raymond-Jean Frontain; American Notes & Queries, Vol. 11, 1998
Subjects: Bibliography, Literature--Miscellanea, Questions And Answers
...left them both, more in himself content, Till the sad breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killd with report that Old man eloquent; Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your...
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A Berlin Epiphany
Journal article by Lawrence Weschler; The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 82, 2006
Subjects: Berlin Germany, Eisenman, Peter, Holocaust, Jews, Memorials & monuments, Social criticism & satire, Victims of crime
...that line! Who else but Szymborska would ever think such a thought?) a moving van passes beneath the eye of the lion at Chaeronea, and the blooming orchards near Verdun cannot escape the approaching atmospheric front. There is so much Everything that...
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Infinite Possibilities: Ten Years of Study of the Archimedes Palimpsest1
Journal article by Roger L. Easton, William Noel; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 154, 2010
Subjects: Art galleries & museums, Books, Infrared radiation, Libraries
...Timandros"). The first of these is of primary importance for understanding political conditions in Athens after the battle at Chaeronea. Seven leaves of a third recently identified manuscript contain another unique text, a commentary on Aristotles Categories...
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magazine articles on: Chaeronea  - 3 results

 
 
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The Soul of Plutarchos
Magazine article by Brian Doyle; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Summer 2000
Subjects: Authors, Greek--Behavior, Greek writers--Behavior, Plutarch--Behavior
...Greece and his little native village, Chaeronea, in Boeotia--which he was famously...and tells him, Plutarch, news from Chaeronea, your little daughter Timoxena is dead...finishing her bath that afternoon in Chaeronea. "Plutarch to his wife, greeting...
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'An Army of Lovers:' the Sacred Band of Thebes
Magazine article by Louis Crompton; History Today, Vol. 44, November 1994
Subjects: Gay military personnel--History, Greece--History, Homosexuality--History
...born and lived in the tiny village of Chaeronea some twenty miles west of Thebes, was...battle took place in 338 at Plutarchs Chaeronea. The Sacred Band were once more the...by an organisation called the Order of Chaeronea. This was in fact a secret, quasi...
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Plutarch & the Issue of Character
Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 19, December 2000
Subjects: Literature and history--Analysis, Plutarch--Philosophy, Politics and literature--History
...remain a somewhat shadowy figure. We have some of the standard externals. We know that he was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boetia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi. He studied philosophy in Athens and emerged a worldly and undoctrinaire...


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encyclopedia articles on: Chaeronea  - 11 results

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Chaeronea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHAERONEA ker ne , ancient town of Boeotia, Greece, in the Cephissus (now Kifisos...Sulla defeated the army of Mithradates VI of Pontus under Archelaus. Chaeronea was the birthplace of Plutarch...
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Demosthenes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...On the False Legation. Philip triumphed in the battle of Chaeronea (338), and Demosthenes cause was lost. Although he had...Demosthenes on the Crown (1983); H. Montgomery, The Way to Chaeronea (1984). ____________________ Copyright...
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Corinth , City, Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...War (395 387 b.c.), however, Corinth joined with Athens against the tyrannical rule of Sparta. After the battle of Chaeronea (338 b.c.) Corinth was garrisoned by Macedonian troops. It became (224 b.c.) a leading member of the Achaean League...
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Greece
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Macedon attacked the warring city-states and conquered Greece by defeating the Athenians and the Thebans in the battle of Chaeronea (338 b.c.), he paved the way for his son, Alexander the Great , who spread Greek civilization over the known Western...
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Plutarch
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PLUTARCH ploo tark, a.d. 46? c.a.d. 120, Greek essayist and biographer, b. Chaeronea, Boeotia. He traveled in Egypt and Italy, visited Rome (where he lectured on philosophy) and Athens, and finally returned...
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