“The history of free men is never really written by chance, but by choice;
their choice!”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Greece’s history is replete with tales of heroes and the great battles they fought. Platea, Tangra, Coronea, and Chaeronea are but a handful of the battlefields that litter the small island nation. However, on a single spot marked by only a stark, white marble column in the middle of a grain field, you’ll find arguably the most significant battlefield of all. It’s a little-visited place called Leuctra, in the region of Boeotia, where in 371 BC General Epaminondas and his army from Thebes defeated the previously unconquerable army of Sparta.… Read the rest
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