Mantineia

Making the point that there is a "very large pagan community in Delaware," Mantineia called the Delaware Republican's conflation of witchcraft and Satanism "disappointing."

Project Bloat 2010

For instance, beginning with their victory over the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, the Thebans enjoyed substantial hegemony for nearly a decade, only to be undone by overextension: a rematch against the Spartans at Mantineia weakened both sides, ultimately leaving Philip II of Macedon to clean up the mess.

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But Diotima, the prophetess of Mantineia, whose sacred and superhuman character raises her above the ordinary proprieties of women, has taught Socrates far more than this about the art and mystery of love.

The Symposium 2006

And now, taking my leave of you, I would rehearse a tale of love which I heard from Diotima of Mantineia, a woman wise in this and in many other kinds of knowledge, who in the days of old, when the Athenians offered sacrifice before the coming of the plague, delayed the disease ten years.

thispain Diary Entry thispain 2006

And now, taking my leave of you, I would rehearse a tale of love which I heard from Diotima of Mantineia (compare 1 Alcibiades), a woman wise in this and in many other kinds of knowledge, who in the days of old, when the Athenians offered sacrifice before the coming of the plague, delayed the disease ten years.

The Symposium 2006

Then Battos the son of Arkesilaos succeeded to the kingdom, who was lame and not sound in his feet: and the Kyrenians with a view to the misfortune which had befallen them sent men to Delphi to ask what form of rule they should adopt, in order to live in the best way possible; and the Pythian prophetess bade them take to themselves a reformer of their State from Mantineia of the Arcadians.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Kyrene accordingly made request, and those of Mantineia gave them the man of most repute among their citizens, whose name was

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Persian in this place: — of the Spartans three hundred hoplites; of the men of Tegea and Mantineia a thousand, half from each place, from Orchomenos in Arcadia a hundred and twenty, and from the rest of Arcadia a thousand, — of the Arcadians so many; from Corinth four hundred, from Phlius two hundred, and of the men of Mykene eighty: these were they who came from the

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

The principal motives of the supporters of Sparta were their hostility to Thebes, and their desire not to break with the Spartans, whom Athens had assisted at Mantineia in 362 against the Thebans and Megalopolitans.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912

{6} But, granted that this is what ought to be, still, we are told, it is a scandalous thing to choose for our allies the men against whom we were arrayed at Mantineia, and further, to help them against those whose perils we shared that day.

The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1 384 BC-322 BC Demosthenes 1912