LEUCTRA

lookˈtrə, village of ancient Greece, in Boeotia, 7 mi (11.3 km) SW of Thebes. There the Spartans were defeated (371 b.c.) by the Thebans under Epaminondas. A brilliant tactical success, the battle also dealt a severe blow to Spartan hegemony.

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books on: Leuctra  - 274 results

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Soldiers, Citizens, and the Symbols of War: From Classical Greece to Republican Rome, 500-167 B.C
Book by Antonio Santosuosso; Westview Press, 1997
Subjects: Civil-Military Relations--History, Military History, Ancient
...95 4.2 Leuctra, 371 B.C. 108...over the Spartans, who were defeated at Leuctra in 371 B.C. and at Mantinea in 362...hoplite against hoplite. The battles at Leuctra and Mantinea also foreshadowed the future...
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A History of the Greek World from 479 to 323 B.C
Book by M. L. W. Laistner; Methuen, 1947
Subjects: Greece--History
...8. Jason of Pherae 198 9. Abortive peace of 371 and the campaign of Leuctra 200 CHAPTER VII THE HEGEMONY OF THEBES 204 -219...
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A Historical Commentary on Diodorus Siculus, Book 15
Book by P. J. Stylianou; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Greece--History--To 146 B.C, History, Ancient--Historiography
...superstition he seems to have abhorred, as shown by Diodorus comments on Epaminondas handling of the omens prior to the battle of Leuctra 15. 52ff. . A particular problem is the assessment of the incidence of Tyche in Ephorus and its relation to Diodorus. The...
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The Shadow of Sparta
Book by Anton Powell, Stephen Hodkinson; Routledge, 1994
...de valued: some Athenian public attitudes to Sparta between Leuctra and the Lamian War 347 N...not liberated from Spartan control until after the battle of Leuctra. The sons of Aristodemus rather than Lycurgus were according...
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Hippeis: The Cavalry of Ancient Greece
Book by Leslie J. Worley; Westview Press, 1994
Subjects: Cavalry--Greece--History
...6.1 Battle of Leuctra 371 B.C. , 143...infantry and cavalry; at Delium, Coronea, Leuctra, and Mantinea, hoplites were the principal...and cavalry was important at Delium, Leuctra, and Mantinea. The modern preoccupation...
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journal articles on: Leuctra  - 3 results

 
 
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Greek Hoplites, Warrior Culture, and Indirect Bias
Journal article by W.G. Runciman; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 4, 1998
Subjects: Greece--History, Military art and science--History, Warfare, Primitive--Research
...pitched battles on land in the period between Plataea in 479 and Leuctra in 371 at 5 per cent. for the winners and 14 per cent. for...had motivated the citizen-warriors who fought at Mantineia or Leuctra or Coroneia were increasingly unlikely to be replicated in...
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The Artful Equivocation of William Golding's the Double Tongue
Journal article by J.H. Stape; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 47, 2001
Subjects: Authorship--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gods--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Golding, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Metaphor--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Double Tongue (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...TO THE UNKNOWN GOD" (17.22-23). The last four words conclude the novel. (7.) Green objects that Sappho threw herself off Leuctra not Leukas, that Arieka is not a Greek name, that Corinth was in ruins at the time of the novel, that the name of an actual...
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Michael Whitby, Ed. Sparta
Journal article by Roy Arthur Swanson; Utopian Studies, Vol. 14, 2003
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Sparta (Book)--Book reviews
...Greek world after Mantinea, "Spartan methods remained essentially the same" (257). The defeat of the Spartans by the Thebans at Leuctra in 371 was due, not to moral decline, erroneous foreign policy, or internal corruption, but, again as Cawkwell surmises, to...


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magazine articles on: Leuctra  - 2 results

 
 
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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
...famous victory ever won by Greeks over Greeks. It took place at Leuctra in 371. On the battlefield Epaminondas devised a new manoeuvre...account granted heroic honours by the Phocians. Their defeat at Leuctra destroyed at a blow the military supremacy the Spartans had...
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The Radical Colonel
Magazine article by Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 264, April 7, 1997
Subjects: Boyd, John--Biography, Military personnel--Biography, United States. Air Force--Officials and employees
...that rare talent of relentless intellectual focus on the task at hand. To hear him discuss tactics employed at the battle of Leuctra, when the Thebans beat the Spartans in 371 B.C., was as overwhelming as to hear him discuss the relevance of Godel, Heisenberg...


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THE GREATEST WARRIORS EVER; with a Ruthlessness Worthy of the Nazis, the Spartans Were Trained to Kill from Birth. but as a New Film Shows, Their Savagery Went Hand in Hand with Unfettered Licentiousness ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 10, 2007
...helot uprising could pose problems. A brilliant general from neighbouring Thebes then defeated the Spartans at the battle of Leuctra, and when the helots rose up against their masters, Spartas days of glory were numbered. In the historical record, it remains...


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encyclopedia articles on: Leuctra  - 12 results

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Leuctra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
LEUCTRA look tr , village of ancient Greece, in Boeotia, 7 mi (11.3 km) SW of Thebes. There the Spartans were defeated (371 b.c.) by...
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Tegea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...of Greece, SE Arcadia, in the Peloponnesus. From the middle of the 6th cent. b.c. until the Spartan defeat at the battle of Leuctra (371 b.c.), it was dominated by Sparta. In 362 b.c. Tegea allied with its rival, Mantinea, against Sparta, but later it again...
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Messene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Greece. It was founded (c.369 b.c.) under Theban auspices to be a capital and fort for the Messenians, whom the battle of Leuctra had just freed from the Spartans. The ruins, notably of the city walls dating from the 4th cent. b.c., are well preserved...
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Epaminondas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Thebes from the peace. In the resulting war Epaminondas commanded the Boeotian troops. His thorough victory over the Spartans at Leuctra (371 b.c.) proved the effectiveness of his military innovations and earned him a reputation as one of the greatest tacticians...
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Messenia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...to helots. The Third Messenian War (464 459 b.c.) was a failure for Messenia, but very costly to Sparta. The battle of Leuctra (371 b.c.) freed Messenia, and Messene was founded (c.369 b.c.) as the capital. The region gave its name to Messina, Sicily...
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