Life of Pelopidas

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Life of Pelopidas is one of Plutarch’s biographical essays in Parallel Lives, recounting the character and exploits of the Theban statesman and general Pelopidas.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek biography
biographical essay
part of Parallel Lives
work of literature
author Plutarch
collection Parallel Lives
countryOfOrigin Greek Antiquity
surface form: Ancient Greece
describes Battle of Cynoscephalae
surface form: Battle of Cynoscephalae (364 BC)

Battle of Leuctra
Pelopidas’ role in overthrowing the Spartan garrison at Thebes
Theban Sacred Band
surface form: Sacred Band of Thebes

Theban hegemony
Theban military campaigns
Theban–Spartan wars
surface form: Theban–Spartan conflicts
focusesOnPeriod 4th century BC Greece
genre biography
historical prose
hasTheme civic virtue
friendship and comradeship in arms
leadership in war
patriotism
struggle against tyranny
hasTitleInGreek Πελοπίδας
hasTitleInLatin Pelopidas
historicalSetting Boeotia
Thebes
Thessaly
influencedBy Hellenistic historiography
intendedFunction moral exemplum
language Ancient Greek
literaryForm prose narrative
literaryPeriod Roman Imperial period
mainSubject Pelopidas
mentions Epaminondas
Theban Sacred Band
surface form: Sacred Band of Thebes

Sparta
Thebes
pairedWith Life of Marcellus
partOf Parallel Lives
portrays Pelopidas
surface form: Pelopidas as a courageous general

Pelopidas as a model of civic virtue
Pelopidas
surface form: Pelopidas as a patriotic Theban leader
preservedIn manuscript tradition of Parallel Lives
tradition Greco-Roman biography
workInCollectionWith Life of Marcellus

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Plutarch’s Parallel Lives hasPart Life of Pelopidas
Pelopidas hasSource Life of Pelopidas
this entity surface form: Plutarch's Life of Pelopidas
Parallel Lives hasPart Life of Pelopidas
Life of Pyrrhus workTitle Life of Pelopidas
this entity surface form: Βίος Πύρρου