delium造句

• Hippocrates eventually did arrive in Boeotia with an Athenian army and began to fortify the temple at Delium.
• He was injured at the Battle of Delium in 424 BC, when he was in his mid-fifties.
• During the Athenian invasion of Boeotia in 424 BC, the Thespian contingent of the Boeotian army sustained heavy losses at the Battle of Delium.
• Before Athens suffered defeat at Delium in 424 BC, Sparta had sent an expedition under Brasidas to assist Perdiccas of Macedonia and other opponents of Athens.
• The tactic of the deep phalanx had been anticipated by Pagondas, another Theban general, who used a 25 man deep formation at the Battle of Delium.
• Most of the Athenians returned to the fort at Delium, where a Boeotian herald announced that they were offending land sacred to the Boeotians and must leave.
• After Delium had been recaptured, Demosthenes and his forces finally arrived, but the lack of communication between him and Hippocrates meant that his arrival was essentially useless.
• After a siege of seventeen days, Delium fell to the Boeotians and at that point the bodies of Hippocrates and the other men were returned to the Athenians.
• At Delium, Pagondas made use of deeper ranks, reserves, cavalry interventions, light-armed skirmishers ( peltasts ) and gradual changes in tactics during the battle.
• A battle, known as the Battle of Delium, took place between the Athenians and the Boeotians, between Delium and Oropus, and the Athenians were clearly defeated.
• A battle, known as the Battle of Delium, took place between the Athenians and the Boeotians, between Delium and Oropus, and the Athenians were clearly defeated.
• For instance, at Delium in 424 the Athenian left flank, a formation eight men deep, held off a formation of Thebans twenty-five deep without immediate collapse.
• In the winter of 424 423, around the same time as the Battle of Delium, the Spartan general Brasidas besieged Amphipolis, an Athenian colony in Thrace on the Strymon river.
• Pagondas of Thebes, the commander of the Boeotian forces, urged them to attack anyway, because he knew the Athenians would eventually return and use Delium as a base for further invasions.
• Hippocrates was given command of the land force that was to take Delium and after he succeeded in doing so and fortifying a garrison there, while marching back towards Athens with his soldiers, the Boeotians arrived.
• In the same year, the Athenians suffered a major defeat in Boeotia at the Battle of Delium, and in 422 BC they were defeated again at the Battle of Amphipolis in their attempt to take back that city.
• By the end of the Pelopponesian War however, heavy cavalry charges had started to play an increasingly important part in Ancient Greek warfare, with the Battle of Delium showing how their intervention could turn the tide of a battle.
• The Boeotians constructed a strange device, which according to the description in Thucydides ( 4.100 ) seems to have been a kind of flamethrower, and used this weapon to set fire to Delium and chase away the Athenians.
• Alcibiades took part in the Battle of Potidaea in 432 BC, where Socrates was said to have saved his life and again at the Battle of Delium in 424 BC . Alcibiades had a particularly close relationship with Socrates, whom he admired and respected.