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	epaminondas
		Epaminondas formed up his Theban phalanx and massed them up to fifty men deep and arrayed them on the left of the line opposite the Spartans, with his Boeotian allies in escelon to the rear.
		Epaminondas was killed nine years later at Mantinea (362) when the Spartans tried to beat the Theban alliance by allying with Athens.
		Epaminondas was a symbol of great patriotism and sacrifice and like the Roman Cincinnatus never gained reward from his position or victories.
	www.ancientbattles.com /HeroesOfGreece/epaminondas/HeroesOfGreece_epaminondas.htm (1116 words)

	Epaminondas - LoveToKnow 1911
		At the instigation of the Peloponnesian states which armed against Sparta in consequence of this battle, Epaminondas in 370 led a large host into Laconia; though unable to capture Sparta he ravaged its territory and dealt a lasting blow at Sparta's predominance in Peloponnesus by liberating the Messenians and rebuilding their capital at Messene.
		Turning his attention to the growing maritime power of Athens, Epaminondas next equipped a fleet of 100 triremes, and during a cruise to the Propontis detached several states from the Athenian confederacy.
		Epaminondas himself received a severe wound during the combat, and died soon after the issue was decided.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Epaminondas (558 words)

	Some Famous Thebans
		He tried to enrich his relative and dearest friend, Epaminondas, whose side of the family was poor, but Epaminondas always refused and preferred to live in genteel poverty for the sake of virtue.
		Epaminondas was the son of Polymnis; his family was aristocratic, but poor.
		Epaminondas sponsored the formation of an Arcadian League (anti-Spartan); the synoecism of Megalopolis; the alliance of Thebes with Tegea, Megalopolis, Messenia, and Argos (against Sparta, Athens, Elis and Achaea [Sicyon]).
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/thebans.html (724 words)

	Epaminondas Summary
		Epaminondas never married and as such was subject to criticism from countrymen who believed he was duty-bound to provide the country with the benefit of sons as great as himself.
		Epaminondas and Gorgidas led a group of young men who broke into armories, took weapons, and surrounded the Spartans on the Cadmea, assisted by a force of Athenian hoplites (heavy infantry).
		As news of Epaminondas' death on the field of battle was passed from soldier to soldier, the allies across the field ceased in their pursuit of the defeated troops—a testament to Epaminondas's centrality to the war effort.
	www.bookrags.com /Epaminondas (4755 words)

	Epaminondas Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Epaminondas (410-362 BC) was a Theban general and statesman who overthrew Sparta and whose original battle tactics revolutionized ancient warfare.
		Trained in Pythagorean philosophy, Epaminondas was said to be unselfish, devout, and generous, and he certainly had a more intellectual approach to war and politics than most Thebans.
		Epaminondas lost favor and was serving in the ranks in 367, when a crisis again raised him to a position of command.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/epaminondas (425 words)

	Abstract Games magazine: game strategy articles, game reviews, news : MAGAZINE
		Epaminondas is named after the Theban general who invented the phalanx, a formation he used to defeat the Spartans in 371 B.C. The term "phalanx" is used in the game to describe a certain arrangement of pieces that can move and capture as a single unit.
		Epaminondas is played on a 14 x 12 board with 28 fl pieces and 28 white pieces.
		An interesting point about Epaminondas is that its game system could be applied to almost any size of board; in fact the parent game, Crossings, uses an 8x8 board.
	www.abstractgamesmagazine.com /epaminondas.html (1345 words)

	Epaminondas (c. 410 - 362 B.C.)
		Epaminondas remained in private life, but when Pelopidas, returning secretly from Athens, successfully overthrew the dictatorship in 379 and frightened the Spartan garrison into surrender, Epaminondas is said to have been one of those who led the popular uprising in Thebes.
		Epaminondas, who was boeotarch (one of the five magistrates of the federation), maintained this position, even when it led to the exclusion of Thebes from the peace treaty.
		Epaminondas repeated on a large scale the tactics of Leuctra and was once more victorious but died of a wound on the field of battle.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/epaminondas.html (939 words)

	Stanford Magazine: Excerpt: May/June2000
		Epaminondas, were he better known, might be held in as much prejudice.
		Epaminondas warrants little in Greek history textbooks; Sherman is mostly remembered as the father of "terror" warfare against civilians; and Patton is caricatured as a dangerous zealot.
		Epaminondas, Sherman and Patton were all concerned about the repercussions of their invasions, but not concerned enough to halt before their central task of overthrowing a slave regime was finished.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2000/mayjun/shelf_life/excerpt.html (1601 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Epaminondas
		In his old age Callias was one of the ambassadors sent to Sparta with Callistratus to negotiate a peace treaty in 371 BC The treaty was ineffective, and friction between Epaminondas of Thebes and Agesilaus II of Sparta...
		Occupying both banks of the Helisson River, it was founded in 371–368 by Epaminondas of Thebes as the seat of the Arcadian League.
		It reached the peak of its power under Epaminondas in the 4th century bc, defeating the Spartans at Leuctra in...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Epaminondas (919 words)

	Epaminondas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At Leuctra, it met the Theban army of Epaminondas, which was perhaps half the size of the Spartan army.
		However, Epaminondas placed his troops at an angle with the Spartan troops, and was able to concentrate his forces on one section of the Spartan battle line.
		Epaminondas invaded the Peloponnese, liberated the helots of Messenia, and repeated his success at Mantinea (362).
	www.livius.org /ei-er/epaminondas/epaminondas.html (295 words)

	HELLAS:NET - Warfare
		Epaminondas hoped to ambush the Athenian forces on the Isthmos when they would march towards Sparta, but Athens decided to transport her forces over the sea.
		Epaminondas had gathered his army from Boeotia and other northern areas in Hellas, and he had chosen Tegeia as his headquarters.
		The strategy of Epaminondas had always been that the attack was the best defense for Thebes, but after his death they returned to their traditional strategy: they were happy with the control over a few small cities in Boeotia.
	monolith.dnsalias.org /~marsares/warfare/battle/mantinea.html (1216 words)

	Cascoly - Amazon: Bookstore Soul of Battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Epaminondas of Thebes was the first of Hanson’s trio of generals to discover the need to do more than defeat an enemy army in the filed.
		Epaminondas ‘s Thebans were not a light army of plunderers or skirmishers, nor a plodding phalanx that existed for battle alone, but rather both.
		What Epaminondas, Sherman and Patton did was very rare in military history, for democracy itself is rare in the larger history of civilization, and rare still its great armies of victory that seek no gold or land, but rather the enemy in its heartland only for the freedom of others.
	cascoly.com /bookstore/soulbat.asp (1674 words)

	Pelopidas - The Freedom Fighter
		Epaminondas stayed in the city and was left alone because his philosophy made him inactive and his poverty made him incapable, or so his enemies assumed.
		Epaminondas did not want to push Alexander to desperation for fear of possible harm to Pelopidas, so he granted a truce of thirty days in exchange for Pelopidas and the other prisoners.
		Epaminondas slanted the rest of his line, so that they were opposed to the other Spartans, but out of range.
	www.e-classics.com /PELOPIDAS.htm (5177 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Epaminondas (Greek: Epameinondas) engineered the rise of Thebes as the foremost Greek city, in defiance of Sparta.
		Epaminondas' liberation of Messenia had a devastating affect on Sparta, which had traditionally relied on Messenian grain, grown by the Messenian serfs known as Helots.
		Epaminondas' later exploits included further invasions of the Peloponnese and a naval expedition against the Athenians.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0195 (273 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Epaminondas' intent was to destroy the Spartans along their strongest front—their right wing, where the elite "Spartiates"; (the Spartan upper class) were arrayed and where the king commanded personally.
		Epaminondas' tactic was to make his left wing the better-performing, by deepening it.
		Epaminondas' innovation—striking at the enemy's strongest point—changed the nature of Greek warfare.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0297 (305 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Famous Men of Greece by John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland
		Epaminondas was so poor that the tyrants did not think him of any consequence and he was allowed to stay in Thebes.
		Epaminondas and Pelopidas drilled the men of Thebes so that they were the best soldiers in all Greece, and Thebes helped other Greek cities become independent.
		Epaminondas was told by his physician that he would die as soon as the spear-head was removed.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=haaren&book=greece&story=epaminondas (1082 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Cornelius Nepos: From Life of Epaminondas
		Epaminondas (died 362 BCE) was one of the noblest and ablest of all the Hellenes.
		It was due largely to Epaminondas that Sparta was deposed from that hegemony of Hellas which she had so long held and abused.
		Epaminondas was the son of Polymnis, and was born at Thebes.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/nepos-epam.html (592 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Epaminondas,
		Little is known of Epaminondas' early life other than he was a pupil of philosopher Lysis of Tarentum.
		During the peace conference of 371 B.C., he was a Theban delegate and refused to surrender his claim to represent all Boeotia.
		Epaminondas led his Boeotian troops to victory over the Spartans at Leuctra.
	www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayLeader.cfm?PID=5744 (195 words)

	Epaminondas, Greece, ancient history
		As a military leader, Epaminondas invented the ingenious strategy of putting the emphasis of the phalanx to the left, as well as making it attack sideways in stead of straight on, which made the enemys left held shields weak.
		On his return to Thebes, Epaminondas was charged and sentenced to death for having kept his high office for much longer than the given month.
		Epaminondas died during a campaign against the Spartan League, hit by a spear.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/epaminondas.htm (271 words)

	Games of Soldiers - EPAMINONDAS
		Epaminondas is a two player game played on a 12x14 square board.
		Epaminondas can also be played at Richard's Rognlie's game server.
		Like Epaminondas but phalanxes may also make 1-step orthogonal/diagonal sideslips//orthogonal sidesteps, provided all target cells are empty.
	www.di.fc.ul.pt /~jpn/gv/epaminondas.htm (386 words)

	Epaminondas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Epaminondas was the Theban leader who invented the phalanx, which he first used to defeat the Spartans.
		Epaminondas was first published in 1975 in a British edition by Philmar Ltd. A year later I published my own edition in America.
		The complete rules to Epaminondas, as well as three puzzles based on the game, are in an article by Kerry Handscomb.
	www.logicmazes.com /games/epam.html (571 words)

	EPAMINONDAS
		Epaminondas wrapped it up in leaves and put it in his hat, and put his hat on his head, and came along home.
		Epaminondas put it in some leaves and took it down to the brook; and there he cooled it in the water, and cooled it in the water, and cooled it in the water, then he took it in his hands and came along home.
		M O, Epaminondas, Epaminondas, you ain’t got the sense you was born with; you never did have the sense you was born with, you never will have the sense you was born with!
	employees.csbsju.edu /dlamb/epaminondas.htm (714 words)

	Epaminondas
		Epaminondas is named after the Theban general who invented the phalanx.
		The basic unit of movement in Epaminondas is the phalanx.
		A phalanx is an unbroken line of pieces of the same color in any direction (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal).
	www.gamerz.net /pbmserv/epaminondas.html (631 words)

	Bits of News - Man against History: Epaminondas and Thebes
		Pelopidas and Epaminondas now set about reorganising the state under a democratic constitution, and the all important task of fielding an army, for when the Spartans returned with payback on their minds.
		While the offensive units were to expend their energy in a swift hammer-blow, the defencive units initially had no other task than to tie up the forces facing them, prevent an encirclement, and only later surround the enemy's forces, if a full scale rout had not resulted by that time.
		Lacking the leadership of Epaminondas, and having only limited resources in wealth and men, Thebes was unable to assert its power over the other Greek cities to the degree of forming a true political unity on the Greek mainland.
	www.bitsofnews.com /content/view/3332/42 (3523 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Soul of Battle: from Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Epaminondas crushed Sparta's military dominance of Greece in a single winter, Sherman delivered a deathblow to the slaveholding South in the U.S. Civil War, and Patton was the general most feared by his Nazi enemies in the Second World War.
		Focusing on the Theban General Epaminondas conquest of Sparta, General Sherman of the Union Army and his march to the sea and General Patron's race through France and Germany, Hanson posits that citizen armies raised from a democratic populace and led by extraordinary leaders create the most lethal fighting machines the world has seen.
		In this little-known and nearly bloodless campaign, the soldiers of Epaminondas ravaged Spartan lands, then, uniquely, permanently freed all the Helots of the province of Messenia by founding a new city-state.
	www.amazon.ca /Soul-Battle-Ancient-Liberators-Vanquished/dp/0385720599 (2916 words)

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