Mantinea
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Title
Mantinea
Subject
The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.
Description
Named as visited by Byron in 1810-09-25 to JoHobhouse. A city in ancient Greece that was the site of two significant battles in Classical Greek history. "Mantinea was an ancient town in Arcadia not far from the modern Tripolis (Tripolitza). The Theban general Epaminondas defetaed the Spartans there but died after his victory." BLJ II-16n.
Creator
Paul M Curtis
Source
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Publisher
The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/
Date
13 April 2014
Contributor
Paul M Curtis
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.
Relation
David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/
http://www.lordbyron.org/
Language
English
Type
Place
Coverage
English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824, 1809-1811
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Mantinea
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Citation
Paul M Curtis, “Mantinea,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 27, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/533.
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- Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, from Patras, September 25th 1810 (46) [Place Mentions]