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 | | When the relations between Athens and Sparta started deteriorating, Thebes sided with the later and contributed to the defeat of Athens at the battle of Tanagra in 457, only to be defeated by Athens at Oenophita two months later after the Spartans had returned home (see Thucydides, I, 107-108). |
 | | For a while, Epaminondas' Thebes took over the role of leading Greek city, freeing the Messenians from Spartan dominion, intervening in all parts of Greece, until Epaminondas was killed in 362 at the battle of Mantinea while fighting a coalition led by Athens and Sparta reconciled against him. |
 | | Eventually persuaded to switch sides by Demosthenes and to team up with Athens against Philip, Thebes took part in the battle of Chæronea (338), where the victory of Philip and is 18 years old son Alexander over the Greek coalition marked the end of Greek autonomy. |
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