Deed — 3 authors face each other below

battle of Leuctra

kind: battle · 371 BCE — the editor’s frame · 61 mentions across 46 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the year anchors receipt — the witness index

The 371 BCE battle. The spine's quote states its own coordinate: 'having fixed the battle of Leuctra to Olymp. 102. 2' (FH II p.242) — Ol. 102.2 = 371 by the volume's stated arithmetic (Ol. 55.1 = 560). The quote sits in a later year-block discussing chronography; the Olympiad it states is the anchor.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Xenophon, the Spartan-leaning contemporary, gives Cleombrotus' council and the defeat almost without Epaminondas; Plutarch's Pelopidas gives the Theban side its dream, its Sacred Band, and its tactics. Sparta's fall reads entirely differently depending on which door you enter.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 371 BCE on the editor’s table of years — within Olympiad 102 .

· 371 BCE — date secure ·

W2 anchored 371 BCE from the spine's own Olympiad quote (Ol. 102.2); Polybius (1.6) independently dates by it, 'the sixteenth before the battle at Leuctra.'

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · 2 accounts

20–23 the principal narrative The Theban telling: the dream at the tombs, the oblique attack on the Spartan right.

at Leuctra they encamped over against the Lacedaemonians. Here Pelopidas had a dream which greatly disturbed him. Plut. Pelopidas 20

that he might thrust back Cleombrotus by a fierce charge in column with all his men-at-arms Plut. Pelopidas 23

Pelopidas · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

28–29 the aftermath — the event itself offstage The news reaching Sparta during the festival; the ephors finish the chorus.

the Lacedaemonians were defeated at Leuctra,—an interval of twenty days. Plut. Agesilaus 28

then came the messengers of calamity from Leuctra. Plut. Agesilaus 29

Agesilaus · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Xenophon · one account

6.4 the principal narrative The contemporary's account: the omens, the council of Cleombrotus, the collapse.

advanced from the seaboard and encamped in Leuctra on Thespian territory. Xen. Hell. 6.4

Hellenica · H. G. Dakyns, 1890-1897

Polybius · one account

1.6 looking back Polybius dating his own history's horizon by Leuctra.

the nineteenth year after the sea-fight at Aegospotami, and the sixteenth before the battle at Leuctra Plb. 1.6

The Histories · Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, 1889

…and the house’s first pass counts 40 more episodes beyond these anchors.

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Pelopidas — 12 episodes shared Epaminondas — a candidate entry Agesilaus — 7 episodes shared Alexander — a candidate entry Lysander — 7 episodes shared Philip — a candidate entry Archidamus — a candidate entry Cleombrotus — a candidate entry Agis — a candidate entry Agis II — 3 episodes shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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