Battles

Tegyra

Tegyra Long. 22o 57' 0" , Lat. 38o 31' is near ",[6] with the limited victory in 375 anticipating the day 4 years later when a similarly outnumbered Theban phalanx would deal Sparta a blow from which it would never recover.


References

Diodorus Siculus, (Online texts from the Perseus Project.)

Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas

Footnotes

  1. ^ Fine, The Ancient Greeks, 565-566
  2. ^ Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas
  3. ^ All details about the battle are taken from the only extant description, in Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas
  4. ^ Diodorus Siculus, Library 15.81.2
  5. ^ Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas
  6. ^ Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas

References

Plutarch, Life of Pelopidas

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