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Definition of Chaeronea
1. Noun. A battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC).
Definition of Chaeronea
1. Proper noun. A village in Boeotia, Greece. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaeronea
Literary usage of Chaeronea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"chaeronea and the Congress of Corinth. — In 338 BC Philip threw off the mask and
invaded Greece. Athens and Thebes combined against him, — to be hopelessly ..."
2. A History of the Ancient World by George Willis Botsford (1911)
"The Battle of chaeronea (338 BC). — In the years of peace which followed, Philip
was busily winning friends among the Greeks; it was his aim to bring Hellas ..."
3. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"BATTLE OF chaeronea Philip had no longer the slightest prospect of realising the
hope, which he had cherished both before and after the Peace of Philo- ..."
4. Pausanias, and Other Greek Sketches by James George Frazer (1900)
"THE PLAIN OF chaeronea.— The plain of chaeronea—one of the largest plains in
Greece—stretches in an unbroken sweep from the foot of Mount Parnassus eastward ..."
5. The History of Thucydides by Thucydides (1829)
"... exiles 5 had a principal hand, and were hiring mercenary auxiliaries from
Peloponnesus.6 Now chaeronea is the last town of ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"They stood the test at chaeronea, where the sacred troops of the Thebans were
defeated, and the Athenians, also in the last fight for their freedom, ..."
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