Mantinea

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Mantinea

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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/

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

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David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

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English

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English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824, 1809-1811

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Mantinea

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Paul M Curtis, “Mantinea,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 27, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/533.

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