Pélopidas
Pélopidas (in Greek old Πελοπίδας ) is a strategist thébain born towards 420 in a family of the nobility. He however becomes the chief of the popular party and its name is associated with that of Épaminondas which was his/her faithful friend until his death.
In 382, Pélopidas is driven out of Thèbes after Phoibidas takes the Cadmée with the Spartiates. He flees with Athens during three years while Thèbes is controlled by Archias and Léontidas. But in 379, with the complicity of remained Épaminondas with Thèbes, it reverses the government pro-Spartan, kills Archias and Leontidas and restores the Démocratie. It is then named Béotarque and fights without slackening against Sparte which invades the Béotie. Although inferiors of number, the thébains, led by Pélopidas and Épaminondas, are victorious with Platées, Thespies, TANAGRA and especially with Tégyre at the time of a vain attempt to take Orchomène. The decisive battle is gained, with the assistance of the Bataillon crowned, reformed and ordered by Pélopidas, like that of Épaminondas, with Leuctres in 371. This disaster Spartan involves one short period of Hégémonie of Thèbes on central Greece.
Pélopidas penetrates then in Laconie and seizes Argos and of Élis. It fails however in its attempt against the city even of Sparte. It beats the Athenians while going up towards Thèbes. Translated into justice under a futile pretext, he is discharged. Thèbes enters in fight against Alexandre de Phères and Pélopidas is made prisoner in 367 av. J. - C. Libéré, it directs an embassy sent near the king of the Perse S, Artaxerxès II, then led a new forwarding against Alexandre de Phères. It is killed in 364 with the Bataille of Cynoscéphales which it gains.
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