Epaminondas

Epaminondas

Epaminondas (; Greek: Ἐπαμεινώνδας; 419/411–362 BC) was a Greek general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a pre-eminent position in Greek politics called the Theban Hegemony. In the process, he broke Spartan military power with his victory at Leuctra and liberated the Messenian helots, a group of Peloponnesian Greeks who had been enslaved under Spartan rule for some 230 years following their defeat in the Third Messenian War ending in 600 BC. Epaminondas reshaped the political map of Greece, fragmented old alliances, created new ones, and supervised the construction of entire cities. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Epaminondas has received more than 571,627 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Epaminondas is the 586th most popular politician (up from 612th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Greek Politician.

Epaminondas was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC. He is most famous for his victory over the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 BC.