- his
forces to
pursue them, but the Gr****s,
particularly the Spartans,
Tegeans and
Athenians halted and gave battle,
routing the
lightly armed Persian...
- the Spartans, Arcadians, Heraeans, and
Maenalians in the centre, and the
Tegeans, who were
fighting for
their homeland took the
position of
honour on the...
- the
Tegeans as an
example of
their people's
bravery in book 9 of The
Histories by Herodotus; who puts in
connection with a
debate between the
Tegeans and...
-
brought shackles along with them,
confident that they
would enslave the
Tegeans. In the
battle that took place, however, the
Spartans were defeated, and...
-
Tegea Tegea – black-and-white
photo essay of the site and
related artifacts Tegean Ancient Army – a
brief peer-reviewed
essay discussing the army of the ancient...
-
could not
spare any. So
Pausanias with 50,000
Lacedaemonians and 3,000
Tegeans prepared for
battle at Plataea. In the
subsequent Battle of Plataea, Pausanias...
- this
story and the
character of
Marpessa in the
collective memory of the
Tegeans.
Robert Graves. The Gr****
Myths (1960) Apollodorus, 1.8.2; Homer, Iliad...
-
Marpessa in the
collective memory of the
Tegeans. The
image of Ares
Gynaecothoenas was
located on the
Tegean Agora and was, as such, also
easily viewable...
- Herodotus. He is said to have, like his father,
fought to a draw with the
Tegeans.
Grandfather to
Leonidis (famous king) Leon was the son of king Eurycratides...
- the
Oracle of
Delphi foretold that the
Spartans could not
defeat the
Tegeans until they
moved the
bones of
Orestes to Sparta.
Lichas discovered the...
