NOUN
- the site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC
How To Use Mantinea In A Sentence
- Whilst they were debating these points, the Lacedaemonians had incorporated the men of Tegea and the men of Mantinea, and were ready to debouch into the bimarine region. 256 And as the two armies advanced almost at the same time, the Corinthians and the rest reached the Nemea,257 and the Lacedaemonians and their allies occupied Sicyon. Hellenica
- The Spartans attempted a military response, and marched against the leading revolutionary state, Mantinea.
- Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or what you please. The Symposium
- Such, Phaedrus, is the tale which I heard from the stranger of Mantinea, and which you may call the encomium of love, or what you please. Symposium
- In this battle the line of the Mantineans, who were on the Argive right wing, extended far beyond the Sciritae: and still further, in proportion as the army to which they belonged was the larger, did the Lacedaemonians and Tegeans on the Lacedaemonian right wing extend beyond the Athenian left. The History of the Peloponnesian War
