- Pelopidas by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born circa 410 B.C., in Thebes; died 364 B.C. Ancient Greek statesman and general.Pelopidas helped organize an anti-Spartan democratic coup in Thebes in 379 B.C. In 378 B.C. And in subsequent years he was repeatedly elected boeotarch, one of the chief magistrates of the Boeotian League. Under his leadership the ...
- Pelopidas by Kaylee Williamson
... but Epaminondas rescued him. Pelopidas went the next year to Persia as ambassador to Artaxerxes. He was killed at the hour of victory in a battle with the Thessalians at Cynoscephalae (now Khalkodhónion hills). Plutarch wrote his life.
- Epaminondas by Aubrey Harmon
... to release the Theban general Pelopidas. In 362 B.C. He again commanded the Boeotians against the Spartans and was victorious at Mantinea, but he died in battle. His brilliant tactics in war were studied by both Philip II and Alexander the Great.
- Andrei Ivanovich Ivanov by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... civic virtue (The Death of Pelopidas, 1800–10, in the Tret’iakov Gallery) and patriotism (The Feat of the Kiev Youth, c. 1810, and The Single Combat of Mstislav the Brave and Rededia, c. 1812, both in the Russian Museum in Leningrad). Ivanov was an outstanding teacher and master of academic drawing. Among his pupils were A.A. Ivanov, his son, and K.P. Briullov...
- Ivanov, Andrei Ivanovich by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... civic virtue (The Death of Pelopidas, 1800–10, in the Tret’iakov Gallery) and patriotism (The Feat of the Kiev Youth, c. 1810, and The Single Combat of Mstislav the Brave and Rededia, c. 1812, both in the Russian Museum in Leningrad). Ivanov was an outstanding teacher and master of academic drawing. Among his pupils were A.A. Ivanov, his son, and K.P. Briullov...