Battle of Tegyra

The Battle of Tegyra took place at 375 BCE in the village Tegyra in Boeotia, northeast of Orchomenus in Greece instead.

The 300 -strong Sacred Band of the supremacy of the Boeotian League, Thebes, an elite unit of state- maintained citizen soldiers struck here under their generals Pelopidas and of an equestrian unit supports a much larger Spartan force of two morai with about 600 to 1,000 heavily armed men the civil army.

The Theban unit formed a deep and narrow formation that smashed through the phalanx of Spartans and caused so the first defeat a numerically superior Spartan force under conditions of a battle.

Ancient sources

  • Plutarch - Life of Pelopidas
  • Diodorus Siculus - Greek World History, Book 15
  • Battle ( Ancient Greece )
  • Thebes ( Boeotia )
  • Sparta
  • 370 BC
Orchomenus (Boeotia) Sacred Band of Thebes Pitched battle
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