Deed — 2 authors face each other below

liberation of Thebes

kind: coup · 379 BCE — the editor’s frame · 3 mentions across 3 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

The exiles' plot of Pelopidas and Melon and the expulsion of the Spartan garrison from the Cadmea, seized by Phoebidas in 382.

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

Xenophon — who suppresses Pelopidas' name throughout the Hellenica — tells the coup as Spartan misgovernment punished; Plutarch makes it the founding legend of the Theban ascendancy, secretary Phillidas' banquet and all. The same night, with opposite heroes.

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

Anchored at 379 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 379 BCE — date secure ·

Winter 379/8 BCE; both accounts hang on the seizure of the Cadmea by Phoebidas three years earlier, which Xenophon and Plutarch also both narrate.

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

Plutarch · one account

7–13 the principal narrative The full conspiracy narrative: the letters, the disguises, the polemarchs at wine.

while Phillidas contrived to have himself appointed secretary to Archias and Philip, the polemarchs. Plut. Pelopidas 7

Phillidas, their secretary, as I have said, was privy to the plans of the exiles Plut. Pelopidas 9

Pelopidas · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Xenophon · one account

5.4 the principal narrative The conspirators' entry and the garrison's capitulation, with Sparta's reckoning after.

the governor, who had abandoned the Cadmeia instead of awaiting reinforcements Xen. Hell. 5.4

Hellenica · H. G. Dakyns, 1890-1897

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

Archias — a candidate entry Pelopidas — 2 episodes shared Philip — a candidate entry Agesilaus — 1 episode shared Archidamus — a candidate entry Callias — a candidate entry Cleombrotus — a candidate entry Cleonymus — a candidate entry Deinon — 1 episode shared Etymocles — a candidate entry

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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