As soon as it was known in the cities, the magistrates, youths, children, and priests came out to meet the body, and brought trophies, crowns, and suits of golden armour; and, when he was to be interred, the elders of the Thessalians came and begged the Thebans that they might give the funeral; and one of them said, "Friends, we ask a favour of you, that will prove both an honour and comfort to us in this our great misfortune. The Thessalians shall never again wait on the living Pelopidas, shall never give honours of which he can be sensible, but if we may have his body, adorn his funeral, and inter him, we shall hope to show that we esteem his death a greater loss to the Thessalians than to the Thebans.

As soon as it was known in the cities, the magistrates, youths, children, and priests came out to meet the body, and brought trophies, crowns, and suits of golden armour; and, when he was to be interred, the elders of the Thessalians came and begged the Thebans that they might give the funeral; and one of them said, "Friends, we ask a favour of you, that will prove both an honour and comfort to us in this our great misfortune. The Thessalians shall never again wait on the living Pelopidas, shall never give honours of which he can be sensible, but if we may have his body, adorn his funeral, and inter him, we shall hope to show that we esteem his death a greater loss to the Thessalians than to the Thebans.

At Cynoscephalae a battle ensued, in which Pelopidas drove the enemy from their ground, but he himself was slain as, burning with resentment, he pressed rashly forward to attack Alexander in person. The Thebans and Thessalians made great lamentations for his death, and the latter, having earnestly requested leave to bury him, celebrated his funeral with extraordinary splendour.

After his arrival he raised a local ... victorious, but Pelopidas himself was killed while attempting to catch Alexander. The Thessalians insisted on burying Pelopidas and gave him a splendid funeral....

Pachynum - Pamphylia Pamphylus - Paralus Parammon - Patreus Patro - Pelopidas Pelopium - Perioeci Periopis - Phalarus Phalces - Pherenicus Pheres - Philolaus Philomela - Phorcides Phorcus - Phylonomus Phylus - Pisistratus Pison - Plynus Podaleirios - Polydora Polydorus - Poseidonius Posidium ...

November 1, 2017 - The following year, when again chosen Boeotarch, Epaminondas made plans for a second campaign, and marched into Thessaly to deliver his friend, who was still a prisoner. When Alexander the tyrant heard that Epaminondas was at the head of the army, he was frightened, and tried to disarm the wrath of the Thebans by setting Pelopidas free, and sending him to meet the advancing army.

In 431 BCE, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War, held their traditional public funeral for all those who had been killed. After the dead had been buried in a public grave, one of the leading citizens, chosen by the city, would offer a suitable speech, and on this occasion ...

EMPIRES is a collection of epic historical miniseries. Each tells a story of a great Empire its people and passions which changed the world.

July 20, 1998 - Pelopidas (died 364 bc, Cynoscephalae, Thessaly [now in Greece]) was a Theban statesman and general responsible, with his friend Epaminondas, for the brief period (371–362) of Theban hegemony in mainland Greece.

June 12, 2024 - Funerary slab depicting a Thessalian man named Pelopides attempting to bridle a horse while a boy watches, Alexandria, late 3rd century BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

January 26, 1996 - Home | Ancient History Sourcebook | Medieval Sourcebook | Modern History Sourcebook | Byzantine Studies Page Other History Sourcebooks: African | East Asian | Indian | Islamic | Jewish | Lesbian and Gay | Science | Women's | Global · Full Texts Legal Texts Search Help

Pelopidas’s funeral attended with great splendor, not the tyrannical kind expressed in forced purple, ivory, and gold

Front Matter Early Inhabitants ... Strange Interview The Peace of Antalcidas The Theban Friends Thebes Free Once More The Battle of Leuctra Death of Pelopidas The Battle of Mantinea The Tyrant of Syracuse Damon and Pythias The Sword of Damocles Dion and Dionysius Civil War ...

October 9, 2024 - After the burial, an honored speaker then addressed the crowd. That year, it was the Athenian leader, Pericles, who gave the speech. Such is the image that Philipp Foltz (c. 1805–1877) brought to life—that of Pericles delivering the funeral oration to the people of Athens.

Plutarch records the words of Philip, ... miserably they who think that these men did or suffered aught disgraceful!'" Philip buried their bodies with honor, setting up the Lion of Chaeronea over them....

26–7); Plutarch also emphasizes ... finally plotted to murder him (Pelopidas. 28, 35). The fact that after Pelopidas’ death the Thessalians are grief-stricken and accord him a magnificent funeral shows for Plutarch the love and loyalty Pelopidas had won....

Pelopidas, a Theban statesman and general, was a member of a distinguished family, and possessed great wealth which he expended on his friends, while content to lead the life of an athlete. In 385 B.C. he served in a Theban contingent sent to the support of the Spartans at Mantinea, where he ...

January 26, 1996 - Home | Ancient History Sourcebook | Medieval Sourcebook | Modern History Sourcebook | Byzantine Studies Page Other History Sourcebooks: African | East Asian | Indian | Islamic | Jewish | Lesbian and Gay | Science | Women's | Global · MainAncientMedievalModern

June 28, 2021 - Accordingly, as he was about to depart, he brought his son from the women's apartments, a mere boy as yet, but in beauty and bodily strength surpassing those of his years, and put him in the hands of Pelopidas, telling him that if he found any guile or treachery in the father, he must treat the son as an enemy and show him no mercy.

October 15, 2025 - While Pericles’ funeral oration undoubtedly reflects the sentiments of the statesmen, we must remember that the text was not transcribed verbatim. Thucydides would have written the funeral oration some time after the actual speech, giving him ample time to reword and edit anything he pleased.