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  List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD
Battle of Himera[?] The Carthaginians under Hamilcar are defeated by the Greeks of Sicily, led by Gelon[?] of Syracuse.
316 BC Battle of Lautulae[?] The Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
225 BC Battle of Faesulae[?] The Romans are defeated by the Gauls of Northern Italy.
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 Xenophon - ninemsn Encarta
In 401 bc Xenophon joined an army of Greek mercenaries in the service of Cyrus the Younger, Prince of Persia, and took part in a campaign against Cyrus's brother, King Artaxerxes II.
After the death of Cyrus at the Battle of Cunaxa (401 bc), the commanding officers of the Greek mercenaries were treacherously murdered by the Persian satrap (governor) Tissaphernes.
In that capacity he was present at the Battle of Coronea (394 bc) at which the Spartans defeated the Athenians and their Theban allies.
au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567474/Xenophon.html   (541 words)

  
 The Battle of Coronea
Coronea 394 BC Stele of Dexileos, Son of Lysianias from Thorikos, who died as one of five cavalrymen 394 BC At the Battle of Coronea (394 BC), Spartan forces under Agesilaus II defeated the Thebans during the Corinthian War, avenging the Spartan defeat at Haliartus, where Lysander had been killed.
Prior to the battle some of Agesilaus's army were disturbed by an omen witnessed some days before, when the sun had appeared crescent shaped.
Agesilaus had himself been wounded in the battle and had to be carried back to the phalanx.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/History/Battles/Coronea394.html   (816 words)

  
 History of Ancient Greece
Around 466 BC the Delian League destroys a large fleet of Persian (Carthaginian) triremes in the Battle of Eurymedon.
The Athenias are successfull in the Battle of Cnidus 394 BC but the Spartans are victorious in the Battle of Coronea 394 BC.
The Spartans united with Athens are not successfull in the Battle of Mantinea 362 BC but Epaminondas dies and the short period of Theban dominance ends.
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  Thebes - Crystalinks
In the late 6th century BC the Thebans were brought for the first time into hostile contact with the Athenians, who helped the small village of Plataea to maintain its independence against them, and in 506 repelled an inroad into Attica.
At the battles of Haliartus (395) and Coronea (394) they again proved their rising military capacity by standing their ground against the Spartans.
Philip was content to deprive Thebes of her dominion over Boeotia; but an unsuccessful revolt in 335 against his son Alexander was punished by Macedon and other Greek states by the severe sacking of the city, except, according to tradition, the house of the poet Pindar.
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 List of battles before AD 601   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Battle of Lautulae The Romans are defeated by the Samnites.
306 BC Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC) Demetrius I Poliorcetes defeats the fleet of Menelaeus, brother of Ptolemy I
293 BC Battle of Aquilonia - The Romans decisively defeat the Samnites.
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 ATHENA : Greek goddess of wisdom, crafts, war & heroism ; mythology ; pictures : ATHENE, MINERVA
This notion was as ancient as the Homeric poems, in which she is described as assisting Odysseus against the lawless conduct of the suitors.
394.) She was believed to have instituted the ancient court of the Areiopagus, and in cases where the votes of the judges were equally diviled, she gave the casting one in favour of the accused.
Dread is she, and with Ares she loves the deeds of war, the sack of cities and the shouting and the battle.
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 Wikipedia: 394 BC
Years: 399 BC 398 BC 397 BC 396 BC 395 BC - 394 BC - 393 BC 392 BC 391 BC 390 BC 389 BC
Battle of Coronea: Agesilaus, king of Sparta, defeats a Greek coalition army
Battle of Cnidus: The Spartan fleet under Peisander is utterly destroyed by the Persian-Athenian fleet of Conon
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 Ethics of Greek Politics and Wars 500-360 BC by Sanderson Beck
Athenian Empire 479-431 BC Athens had been destroyed in 480 BC, but after the Persian invasion was defeated the next year, the Athenians began to rebuild their walls and to make the Piraeus a major harbor, persuaded by Themistocles, who had championed their victorious navy.
In 421 BC the recalled Spartan king Pleistoanax and the Athenian general Nicias agreed on a peace for fifty years; both sides agreed to restore several cities that had been taken in the war, and all the captives were to be released.
Spartan Hegemony 404-371 BC According to Thucydides during the Peloponnesian War in 424 BC the Spartan general Brasidas had told the Thracians that the Peloponnesians did not seek empire but were struggling to end Athenian imperialism; Brasidas offered autonomy to Thrace, and his policy was confirmed in oaths by the Spartan ephors.
www.san.beck.org /EC19-GreekWars.html   (19828 words)

  
 Battle of Coronea (394 BC)
In the early spring of 395 BC he had encouraged strict military training and top physical conditioning by placing the Spartiates in charge and offering prizes for excellence in physical conditioning, weapons use, and military drill.
Among the troops recruited for his force were the veterans of Xenophon's 10,000 who had served as mercenaries for Cyrus and then had to fight their way out of Persia when Cyrus was killed.
The second was the news that the Spartan admiral Peisander had died in battle.
www.fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/coronea.html   (1657 words)

  
 Battle of Coronea (394 BC)
In the early spring of 395 BC he had encouraged strict military training and top physical conditioning by placing the Spartiates in charge and offering prizes for excellence in physical conditioning, weapons use, and military drill.
Among the troops recruited for his force were the veterans of Xenophon's 10,000 who had served as mercenaries for Cyrus and then had to fight their way out of Persia when Cyrus was killed.
The second was the news that the Spartan admiral Peisander had died in battle.
fanaticus.org /DBA/battles/coronea.html   (1657 words)

  
 Xenophon, Greece, ancient history
In 394 BC he joined the court of the Spartan king Agelisaus II, and was present at the Battle of Coronea the same year, where the Spartans defeated the Athenian and Theban armies.
For this, Xenophon was convicted of treachury by the Athenians, and he was sentenced to banishment.
He was then given an estate in Elis by the Spartan government, but when the Thebans defeated the Spartans at the battle of Leuctra 13 years later, he was forced to leave his home.
www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/xenophon.htm   (286 words)

  
 Xenophon - Encyclopedia.com
He was one of the well-to-do young disciples of Socrates before leaving Athens to join the Greek force (the Ten Thousand) that was in the service of Cyrus the Younger of Persia.
These troops served Cyrus at the disastrous battle of Cunaxa (401 BC).
He accompanied Agesilaus II on the campaign that ended (394 BC) in victory over the Athenians and Thebans at Coronea.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Xenophon.html   (630 words)

  
 HELLAS:NET - Warfare
The irony was that Epaminondas had used exactly the same trick as the Spartans had used during the battle of Aigospotamoi against Athens in 405 BC.
The Thebans used the same strategy as during the battle of Leuctra, and the Spartans had obviously learned nothing of this last battle.
The Theban cavalry and peltasts moved forwards at both sides of the phalanx and attacked the cavalry and peltasts of the Coalition.
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 Greece: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
Battle of Leuctra -astounding victory of the outnumbered Thebans under the command of the Theban general Epameinondas against the Spartans under Cleombrotos who lost his life in the battle ---- 371 BCE Xen Hell.
Seleucus, Ptolemy I, Lysimachus and Cassander [Diodorus Siculus XIX.56-62] Battle of Paraetacene (Autumn, 316 BCE) [Diod.
After the death of Antigonus I at the battle of Ipsus (301) Seleucus was to have received all of Syria from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean but refrained from pressing his claims on the coast due to his friendship with Ptolemy[Diod.
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