Chaeronea

American  

[ker-uh-nee-uh] / ˌkɛr əˈni ə /

noun

1. an ancient city in E Greece, in Boeotia: victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians, Thebans, and their allies, 338 b.c.

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Chaeronea British  

/ ˌkɛrəˈniːə /

noun

1. an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 _bc ) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 _bc )

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Example Sentences

Much has been made of his defective accounts of the tyrants and the Macedonian empire, and his opinion that Greek history ceased to be interesting or instructive after Chaeronea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

That dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that Old Man Eloquent.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

She was a familiar deity at Orchomenus and Chaeronea for generations before Plutarch found in her legends a congenial field for the exposition of his concordat between philosophy and myth.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

Thus much of the actions of Chaeronea and Orchomenus.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

His own library, or the libraries to which he had access at Chaeronea, must have been well furnished with the books most important for his studies.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various