Mantinea
Americannoun
noun
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Alarmed by the sudden growth of Thebes’s power, Athens and Sparta again joined forces and, in 362 BCE, fought the Thebans at the Battle of Mantinea.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In the year 387 they called the Thebans to assist in besieging the city of Mantinea, in a valley between Argos and Arcadia.
From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Socrates, 199, 200; tribute of, to Diotima of Mantinea, 11; influence of Aspasia on, 12, 13, 16; woman's equality with man asserted by, 15, 16.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
They died, and were buried with him at Mantinea.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington
And in addition to this, the exercises of single combat were first invented in Mantinea, Demeas being the original author of the invention.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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