Epaminondas

Epaminondas

Epaminondas (; Ancient Greek: Ἐπαμεινώνδας; 419/411–362 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a pre-eminent position in Greek politics called the Theban Hegemony. In the process, he broke Spartan military power with his victory at Leuctra and liberated the Messenian helots, a group of Peloponnesian Greeks who had been enslaved under Spartan rule for some 230 years following their defeat in the Third Messenian War ending in 600 BC. Epaminondas reshaped the political map of Greece, fragmented old alliances, created new ones, and supervised the construction of entire cities. He was also militarily influential and invented and implemented several important battlefield tactics. Xenophon, the historian and contemporary, is the main source for Epaminondas's military prowess, and Xenophon describes his admiration for him in his major work Hellenica (book VII, chap. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Epaminondas is the 852nd most popular politician (down from 607th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Greece (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Greek Politician.

Epaminondas was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC. He is most famous for his victory over the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 BC.