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Battle of Delium (Delion)
Part of the Peloponnesian War

Socrates at the Battle of Delium (Thomas Couture, 1843)
Date424 BC
Location
Delium
Result Boeotian victory
Belligerents
Athens Boeotia
Commanders and leaders
Hippocrates  Pagondas
Strength

17,000 total


7,000 hoplites[1]
10,000 metics[1]

18,500 total


7,000 hoplites[2]
10,000 light-armed troops[2]
1,000 cavalry[2]
500 peltasts[2]
Casualties and losses
About 1,200 About 500

The Battle of Delium (or Delion, a city in Boeotia) took place in 424 BC, during the Peloponnesian War. It was fought between the Athenians and the Boeotians, who were allies of the Spartans, and ended with the siege of Delium in the following weeks.

  1. ^ a b Kagan, Donald (1974), the Archidamian War, p. 281.
  2. ^ a b c d Kagan, Donald (1974), the Archidamian War, p. 282.

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