Region: Southern Europe · Coordinates: 38.320, 23.318 · 24 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 479 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Eleven days later the Greeks besiege Thebes and demand the surrender of the Persian sympathizers |
| 395 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | He then persuades the ephors and raises an expedition against Thebes |
| 395 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Titraustes sends Timocrates of Rhodes to Greece to scatter gold and incite a war against Sparta. |
| 382 BC | Diodorus Siculus, Library of History | Thebes lost its autonomy and was subjected to Sparta. |
| 382 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Sparta seizes the Cadmea of Thebes |
| 382 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Agesilaus is suspected of complicity in Phoebidas's seizure of the Cadmea |
| 382 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | At the Theban gymnasium outside the city walls, Phoebidas, at the urging of Leontiades, occupies the Cadmea at midday during the Thesmophoria. |
| 379 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | Exiles disguised as farmers infiltrate Thebes |
| 379 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Melon, an exile from Thebes, conspires with Philidas, returns from Athens, and murders the polemarchs Archias and others at a banquet. |
| 379 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | After declaring liberation, they open the prisons, and at daybreak all the citizens of Thebes gather and join them. |
| 379 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | The Spartan garrison in the Cadmea withdraws through negotiation, and any political opponents who come out are killed by the citizens. |
| 378 BC | Diodorus Siculus, Library of History | The Cadmea garrison, encouraged by its commander, repelled the attackers. |
| 378 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Thebes digs a trench and erects a palisade around the plain, but Agesilao encamps, wins in a cavalry battle, enters the palisade, and plunders. |
| 366 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Thebes summons representatives from each city to hear the king's decree read, but is refused their oaths. |
| 366 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | The exiled aristocrats follow Euphron to Thebes and assassinate him; in the Theban court the murderers are acquitted. |
| 366 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Corinthian envoys make a peace, not an alliance, with Thebes, and Phlius also withdraws from Thiamia. |
| 335 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | Exiles from Thebes killed two officers of the garrison in the Cadmea and rebelled; Alexander came down from northern Macedonia into Boeotia and camped at Iolaos near the olive grove. |
| 335 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | Perdiccas, without orders, drew up his palisade and went in, starting the battle; Alexander drove the Theban army back to the city gates in phalanx formation, and the Macedonian army entered the city with them. |
| 335 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | The disposition of Thebes was left to the allies: a garrison was placed in the Cadmea, the city was razed, and women, children and surviving men were sold into slavery. The house and descendants of Pindar were spared. |
| 335 BC | Diodorus Siculus, Library of History | Battle of Thebes: both sides suffered many wounded and dead. |
| 335 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | After taking the throne he storms rebellious Thebes |
| 335 BC | Plutarch's Parallel Lives | When Alexander marches on Thebes, Phocion tries to restrain Demosthenes |
| 171 BC | Livy, History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) | The army marched to Thebes, took it without a fight, and handed it over to the pro-Roman exiles |
| 171 BC | Polybius, Histories | Unrest in Boeotian Thebes — on the eve of the Perseus war (171 BC) |