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Pelopidas (434 words) |
 | In 385 BC he served in a Theban contingent sent to the support of the Spartans at Mantineia[?], where he was saved, when dangerously wounded, by Epaminondas. |
| In 369 BC, in response to a petition of the Thessalians, Pelopidas was sent with an army against Alexander of Pherae. |
| In 367 BC Pelopidas went on an embassy to the Persian king and induced him to prescribe a settlement of Greece according to the wishes of the Thebans. |
| Aristophanes - MSN Encarta (447 words) |
| The Knights (424 bc), the first of the plays of Aristophanes to be presented under his own name, is a devastating satire about Athenian politician and military leader Cleon, champion of the democratic forces and leader of the war party. |
| The Birds (414 bc) is a fantasy in which an Athenian persuades the birds to build a city in the clouds and then imposes his own terms on the gods. |
| Ecclesiazusa (393 bc) is a satire on the idea of communal ownership of property, and Plutus (388 bc) reduced to absurdity the concept of redistribution of wealth in Athens. |
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