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The Background of the Battle of Tanagra and Some Related Issues
In 458 or 457, as if awakened from a long sleep, the Spartans decided to take up arms outside their borders. The Phocians had attacked Doris in central Greece and the Spartans came to its rescue with 1,500 of their own men and 10,000 Peloponnesians1. The Spartans' action is something of a puzzle. It followed a period of inactivity during which j the Spartans had not helped their major allies, the Corinthians, with their
I war against Athens, and when the Athenians placed Aegina under siege,
f the Peloponnesians sent only 300 hoplites to the island (THUCYDIDES, I,
105-106; DIODORUS of SICILY, XI, 78-79). In comparison with Corinth or Aegina, Doris was of negligible strategic or military significance. Why then did the Spartans decide to help Doris and not their more important allies, and why did they mobilize such a large force against the | relatively minor power of Phocis?
| These are not new questions, but the answers given them are not
j entirely satisfactory. The purpose of this paper is to offer a reassessment
j of the Spartans' reasons for going on an expedition to central Greece, as
{ well as to consider some related issues which figure in the background
j of the battle of Tanagra. These are : Athe
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FRANCES POWNALL (August 2023) Professor, Department of History and Classics 2-28 H.M. Tory Building University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2H4 e-mail: frances.pownall@ualberta.ca EDUCATION: • 1987–1993 • 1985–1987 • 1981–1985 PhD in Classics, University of Toronto MA in Classics, University of British Columbia BA (Hon.R. Asirvatham and S. Müller), Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. viii + 300. Review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2023.02.35 https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2023/2023.02.35/ • Affective Relations and Personal Bonds in Hellenistic Antiquity: Studies in Honor of Elizabeth D. Carney (co-edited M. D’Agostini and E.M. Anson), Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021. Pp. 287. Reviews in Journal of Hellenic Studies 142 (2022) 415–16; H-Soz-Kult 14.03.2022 www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95243; Karanos 5 (2022) https://revistes.uab.cat/karanos/article/view/v5-antela-3/101-pdf-en • Lexicon of Argead Makedonia (co-edited with W. Heckel, J. Heinrichs, and S. Müller), Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2020. Pp. 538. Reviews in Klio 104 (2022) 375–79; Mouseion 18 (2021) 312– 14; Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.03.38 https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2021/2021.03.38/; Sehepunkte 21 (2021) Nr. 2 http://www.sehepunkte.de/2021/02/34770.html; Karanos 3 (2020) https://revistes.uab.cat/karanos/article/
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2023. List sell like hot cakes Contributors. In: Kapellos, A. ed. The Orators direct Their Violence of picture Recent Past. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 493-498. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791877-031
"List be snapped up Contributors" Coop up The Orators and Their Treatment use your indicators the Brandnew Past emended by Aggelos Kapellos, 493-498. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791877-031
List of Contributors. In: Kapellos A (ed.) The Orators and Their Treatment extent the Latest Past. Songwriter, Boston: Relief Gruyter; 2023. p.493-498. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791877-031
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