This state waged a 10-year war with Phocis and earlier Pagondas, a general from this polity, led the forces that defeated Hippocrates at the Battle of Delium.
Timoclea, a woman from this city, earned the respect of Alexander the Great after she killed a Thracian soldier. This state waged a 10-year war with Phocis and earlier Pagondas, a general from this polity, led the forces that defeated Hippocrates at the Battle of Delium. This victor of the Battle of Haliartus provided aid to Xerxes at the Battle of Plataea and in 431 BC, they failed yet again in their attempt to besiege that same town. This city-state won the Battle of Tegyra under Pelopidas and thirteen years later it would earn another victory at Mantinea, but would lose its greatest commander.  Nine years earlier that commander had deepened his left wing in order to take advantage of Cleombrotus' weak right wing at the earlier Battle of Leuctra. Epaminondas was the greatest general of, for ten points, what city-state, which famously employed the Sacred Band.
Timoclea, a woman from this city, earned the respect of Alexander the Great after she killed a Thracian soldier.
Thebes