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.

---

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 )

---

Example Sentences

Plutarch.—Plutarch of Chaeronea, a Greek author of the first century A.D., wrote forty-six "parallel" Lives, of famous Greeks and Romans.

From An Introduction to Shakespeare by MacCracken, H. N.

At the battle of Chaeronea, which his father fought against the Grecians, he is said to have been the first man that charged the Thebans' sacred band.

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

The bulk of the army that defeated Mardonius at Plataea came from the Peloponnese; at Chaeronea no Peloponnesian state was represented.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

It was here also that Sulla defeated Mithridates, and in the great civil wars of Rome we again hear, this time from Plutarch himself, of the sufferings of the citizens of Chaeronea.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

The lives of the noble Grecians and Romans, compared together by that grave, learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarch of Chaeronea.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office