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Mantinea

noun
1.
The site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC.  Synonym: Mantineia.





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"Mantinea" Quotes from Famous Books



... that there is no other instance of a Greek general deviating from the ordinary mode of bringing a phalanx of spearmen into action until the battles of Leuctra and Mantinea, more than a century after Marathon, when Epaminondas introduced the tactics which Alexander the Great in ancient times, and Frederick the Great in modern times, made so famous, of concentrating an overpowering force to bear ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various


Words linked to "Mantinea" :   Greece, pitched battle, Ellas, Hellenic Republic


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