Pausanias Analysis

Passage 9.6.4

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Passage 9.6.4: Theban victory at Leuctra and the rise of Theban hegemony.

Historical Non-skeptical

Greek Text

κρατηθέντες δὲ μάχῃ περὶ Κόρινθόν τε καὶ ἐν Κορωνείᾳ, νικῶσιν αὖθις ἐν Λεύκτροις ἐπιφανεστάτην νίκην ὁπόσας γενομένας Ἕλλησιν ἴσμεν κατὰ Ἑλλήνων· καὶ δεκαδαρχίας τε, ἃς Λακεδαιμόνιοι κατέστησαν ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν, ἔπαυσαν καὶ ἁρμοστὰς τοὺς Σπαρτιάτας ἐκβάλλουσιν. ὕστερον δὲ καὶ τὸν Φωκικὸν πόλεμον, ὀνομαζόμενον δὲ ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων ἱερόν, συνεχῶς δέκα ἔτεσιν ἐπολέμησαν.

English Translation

After suffering defeat in battle near Corinth and at Coroneia, they subsequently won at Leuctra, gaining the most remarkable victory we know of among Greeks fighting against Greeks. They put an end to the decarchies that the Lacedaemonians had set up in the cities, and they expelled the Spartan harmosts. Later, they also carried on war against the Phocians—a conflict the Greeks have named the Sacred War—for ten continuous years.

Proper Nouns

Phocian (war) (Φωκικός (πόλεμος)) other
Lacedaemonians (Λακεδαιμόνιοι) person
Spartiates (Σπαρτιάται) person
Hellenes (Ἕλληνες) person
Koroneia (Κορώνεια) place Q593295
Corinth (Κόρινθος) place Q1363688 Pleiades
Leuctra (Λεῦκτρα) place Q56761602
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