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Plutarch, Pericles, 18.3

τότε μὲν οὖν μετρίως εὐδοκίμησε τοῦτʼ εἰπών· ὀλίγαις δʼ ὕστερον ἡμέραις, ὡς ἀνηγγέλθη τεθνεὼς μὲν αὐτὸς Τολμίδης περὶ Κορώνειαν ἡττηθεὶς μάχῃ, τεθνεῶτες δὲ πολλοὶ κἀγαθοὶ τῶν πολιτῶν, μεγάλην τοῦτο τῷ Περικλεῖ μετʼ εὐνοίας δόξαν ἤνεγκεν, ὡς ἀνδρὶ φρονίμῳ καὶ φιλοπολίτῃ. This saying brought him only moderate repute at the time; but a few days afterwards, when word was brought that Tolmides himself was dead after defeat in battle near Coroneia, 447 B.C. and that many brave citizens were dead likewise, then it brought Pericles great repute as well as goodwill, for that he was a man of discretion and patriotism.

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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.113, 4.76.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 4.76.3. The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay of Crisae, in the Thespian territory, was to be betrayed to them by one party; Chaeronea (a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, now the Boeotian, Orchomenus ), to be put into their hands by another from that town, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in Peloponnese . Some Phocians also were in the plot, Chaeronea being the frontier town of Boeotia and close to Phanotis in Phocis .
2. Xenophon, Hellenica, 6.5.32 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 6.5.32. It now seemed somewhat more certain that they would make no further attempt upon the city; and in fact their army departed thence and took the road toward Helos and Gytheium. And they burned such of the towns as were unwalled and made a three days’ attack upon Gytheium, where the Lacedaemonians had their dockyards. There were some of the Perioeci also who not only joined in this attack, but did regular service with the troops that followed the Thebans. A most striking indication of Xenophon’s pro-Spartan feeling (see Introd. p. x) is found in the fact that he here omits all reference to the greatest of the humiliations which Sparta suffered at this time: (1) the re-establishment by Epaminondas, the Theban general, of the independence of Messenia, which for centuries had been subject to the Spartans; and (2) the founding of the great city, Megalopolis, as the capital of an independent Arcadia. Nevertheless, Xenophon alludes several times in the following book to the accomplished fact of Messenian independence and to Megalopolis.
3. Lycurgus, Against Leocrates, 72 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
4. Plutarch, Agesilaus, 19.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
5. Plutarch, On The Obsolescence of Oracles, 412c, 412d, 412b (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 412b. took up a large stone and smote him on the head. All this was in harmony, as it were, with events to come; for Mardonius was vanquished while the Greeks were led, not by a king, but by a guardian and deputy of a king; and he fell, struck by a stone just as the Lydian dreamed that he was struck in his sleep. "That time, too, was the most flourishing period of the oracle at Tegyrae, which place also by tradition is the birthplace of the god; and of the two streams of water that flow past it, the inhabitants even to this day call the one 'Palm' and the other 'Olive.' Now in the Persian Wars, when Echecrates was the prophetic priest, the god prophesied for the Greeks victory and might in war;
6. Plutarch, On The Glory of The Athenians, 345d (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 345d. and Nicias's valiant deeds at Cythera and Megara and Corinth, Demosthenes' Pylos, and Cleon's four hundred captives, Tolmides' circumnavigation of the Peloponnesus, and Myronides' victory over the Boeotians at Oenophyta — take these away and Thucydides is stricken from your list of writers. Take away Alcibiades' spirited exploits in the Hellespontine region, and those of Thrasyllus by Lesbos, and the overthrow by Theramenes of the oligarchy, Thrasybulus and Archinus and the uprising of the Seventy from Phylê against the Spartan hegemony, and Conon's restoration of Athens to her power on the sea —
7. Plutarch, Pericles, 18.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 18.2. So when he saw that Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus, all on account of his previous good-fortune and of the exceeding great honor bestowed upon him for his wars, was getting ready, quite inopportunely, to make an incursion into Boeotia, and that he had persuaded the bravest and most ambitious men of military age to volunteer for the campaign,—as many as a thousand of them, aside from the rest of his forces,—he tried to restrain and dissuade him in the popular assembly, uttering then that well remembered saying, to wit, that if he would not listen to Pericles, he would yet do full well to wait for that wisest of all counsellors, Time.
8. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.27.5, 9.34.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.27.5. On the pedestal are also statues of Theaenetus, who was seer to Tolmides, and of Tolmides himself, who when in command of the Athenian fleet inflicted severe damage upon the enemy, especially upon the Peloponnesians who dwell along the coast, burnt the dock-yards at Gythium and captured Boeae, belonging to the “provincials,” and the island of Cythera . He made a descent on Sicyonia, and, attacked by the citizens as he was laying waste the country, he put them to flight and chased them to the city. Returning afterwards to Athens, he conducted Athenian colonists to Euboea and Naxos and invaded Boeotia with an army. Having ravaged the greater part of the land and reduced Chaeronea by a siege, he advanced into the territory of Haliartus,where he was killed in battle and all his army worsted. 447 B.C. Such was the history of Tolmides that I learnt. 9.34.1. Before reaching Coroneia from Alalcomenae we come to the sanctuary of Itonian Athena. It is named after Itonius the son of Amphictyon, and here the Boeotians gather for their general assembly. In the temple are bronze images of Itonian Athena and Zeus; the artist was Agoracritus, pupil and loved one of Pheidias. In my time they dedicated too images of the Graces.

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subject	book bibliographic info
acropolis, athenian	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
aeschines, on the embassy	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
agesilaos ii of sparta	Lalone, Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess (2019) 147
antigonos ii	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
apollo	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
asylia, and boiotia	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
asylia, and the amphiareion	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
athens, athenians	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
battles, koroneia 394 bc(	Lalone, Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess (2019) 147
battles, koroneia 447 bc(	Lalone, Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess (2019) 147
boiotarch	Lalone, Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess (2019) 147
boiotian koinon, formation of	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
chaeronea	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
chremonidean war	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
corinth, corinthians, coronea, battle of	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
coronea	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
delphi	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
epaminondas	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
eurymedon river, battle of	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
festivals, and boiotian regional identity	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
gytheum	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
herodotus	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
imperialism, athenian, the empire	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
local knowledge	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
lycurgus, as user of the past	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
macedon, macedonian	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
medism, theban	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
oracle	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
orchomenus	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
paradeigmata, in aeschines (a sample)	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
pausanias, periegete	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
pausanias (writer)	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
peace of philocrates, assembly debate on the, aeschines in the	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
peace of philocrates, assembly debate on the, in general	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
peace of philocrates, assembly debate on the, opponents in the	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
peloponnese, peloponnesians	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
peloponnesian war	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
plutarch, on pericles	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
sacrifice	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24
sanctuary of athena itonia, koroneia	Wilding, Reinventing the Amphiareion at Oropos (2022) 128
sparta, spartans, in the pentecontaetia	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
statues (honorific), on the acropolis'	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
theaenetus	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
tolmides	Athanassaki and Titchener, Plutarch's Cities (2022) 24; Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257
xenophon, on epaminondas in laconia	Westwood, The Rhetoric of the Past in Demosthenes and Aeschines: Oratory, History, and Politics in Classical Athens (2020) 257