HIST 2850 Lecture 4: Ancient Rome and Greece February 7
8 Apr 2017
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Battle of leucra; pivotal moment, where thebans beat the spartan hoplites using the slant with the sacred band. Pelopidas: he was born to a very prominent theban family, where he was a wrestler. Became very famous and was wealthy, where he gave away a lot of his wealth freely, lived a frugal life. Early military career we see him at the battle of mantinea(384). Presumed dead though epamindas comes over and gets injured, then the spartan king comes and gets them. Both elected as the boeotarch, 379, where he leads the theban army in two battles; tegrya and leuctra. Following the battles they march south and they restore freedom to messenia. Alexander of pherae, tryrant attempts to dominant northern greece, people from thessaly appeals to thebes for help. Alexndar of pherae, attempts to dominate the north, where at cynoscephelae; Plutarch records that phillip sees the sacred band, and wept, where he put a lion at chaerenea to honour them.
