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Lacedaemonians retreated from Boeotia by this route, in order to avoid the more direct roads across Mt. Cithaeron. On the first of these occasions, in 378 BCE, the Lacedaemonian army under Cleombrotus I was overtaken by such a violent storm that the shields of the soldiers were wrested from their hands by the wind, and many of the beasts of burden were blown over the precipices.[2] The second time that they took this route was after the fatal Battle of Leuctra, in 371 BCE.[7]
Its site is located near modern Livadostro.[8][9]
References
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ a b Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 5.4.16, et seq.
- ^ a b c Pausanias (1918). "32.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 9. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- Ab urbe condita Libri[History of Rome]. Vol. 36.21.
- ^ a b Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. pp. 405, 409. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ "Creusa, Thespiensium emporium, in intimo sinu Corinthiaco retractum," Livy, 36.21.
- ^ Xenophon. Hellenica. Vol. 6.4 25, et seq.
- ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Creusa". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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