Epaminondas and Thebes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9342195 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G L Cawkwell, George Cawkwell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 254-278 |
| Publication date | 1972-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Classical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-8388 • E-ISSN: 1471-6844 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0009838800042063 |
| OpenAlex | W1991927474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 2 |
Epaminondas the soldier has been much admired. His two great battles rank as masterpieces of the military art. Epaminondas himself perhaps regarded them as his greatest achievements, to judge by his last words as reported by Diodorus (15. 87). He had been carried from the battlefield of Mantinea with a spear stuck in his chest. The doctors declared that when the spear was removed he would die. After hearing that his own shield was safe and that the Boeotians had won, he ordered that the spear be removed. One of his friends said to him ‘But you die without a son.’ He answered ‘I do, by God, but I leave two daughters, my victory of Leuctra and my victory of Mantinea’, and then he died. Nor were his ‘daughters’ unadmired. By remarkable chance the future Philip II of Macedon was hostage at Thebes at the very time of Epaminondas' pre-eminence and did not fail to learn, as Chaeronea was to show
Ancient history · Art · Battlefield · Political science · Politics · Spear · Victory · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Law
Epaminondas
Generalship
Epaminondas at Leuctra, 371 b.c.
Society and Economy
Alexander the Great Part 1
The Corinthian War
Mediterranean communications
Sources and their uses
Epilogue
Macedonian hegemony created
South Italy in the fourth century B.C.
Alexander the Great Part 2
Sparta as victor
Society and economy
Dion and Timoleon
Illyrians and North-west Greeks
Persia
Carthage from the battle at Himera to Agathocles' invasion (480–308 B.C.)
Cyprus and Phoenicia
Greek art
Warfare
Sicily, 413–368 B.C.
The polis and the alternatives
The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy
The Maritime Policy of the Tyrants of Pherae
The Cambridge Ancient History
Intertextuality in the De Genio Socratis
Pausanias and Plutarch's Epaminondas
The Laws of the Fathers" versus "The Laws of the League
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |