Qualla: Battle of Lechaeum https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/battle-of-lechaeum-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Lechaeum https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum Battle of Lechaeum: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum/ Photo credit Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0. The Spartan commander made a small, sensible decision that turned out to be ruinous. He had escorted the Amyclaean contingent past Corinth so they could go home for a religious festival, then turned his hoplites back toward the port at Lechaeum without any cavalry or peltasts to screen them. The walls of Corinth were close, but the men inside, he believed, were thoroughly cowed. Watching from those walls were two Athenian commanders, Iphicrates and Callias, who saw something he did not see: a regiment of six hundred Spartans marching unprotected through open country.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/battle-of-lechaeum-wp/sw8r-battle-of-lechaeum-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lechaeum: A Quiet Walk That Became Famous https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. In 391 BC the Corinthian War had settled into the kind of grinding stalemate that exhausts everyone but resolves nothing. Sparta's King Agesilaus had moved through the territory of Corinth, capturing strongpoints and burning whatever the locals had not already harvested. The pro-...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/battle-of-lechaeum-wp/sw8r-battle-of-lechaeum-a-quiet-walk-that-became-famous.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lechaeum: The Trap That Wasn't Planned https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum/ Photo credit Nefasdicere at en.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. What followed was less an ambush than an opportunity seized in real time. The Athenian hoplites under Callias formed up outside Corinth's walls. The peltasts began throwing javelins at the Spartan column. When the Spartans charged, the peltasts simply ran - faster than men in hea...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/battle-of-lechaeum-wp/sw8r-battle-of-lechaeum-the-trap-that-wasnt-planned.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lechaeum: The Hill and the Boats https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum/ Photo credit AlMare, CC BY-SA 3.0. Driven onto a hilltop overlooking Lechaeum, the surviving Spartans could see help coming - small boats from the port, rowed out by their countrymen as close to the slope as they could reach, perhaps half a mile distant. They could also see the Athenian hoplites finally moving up....

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/battle-of-lechaeum-wp/sw8r-battle-of-lechaeum-the-hill-and-the-boats.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lechaeum: What the News Did https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum/ Photo credit Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0. Agesilaus heard the report and went home to Sparta. Xenophon, himself a friend of Sparta, recorded the disaster as a profound shock - not because the numbers were enormous, but because of what they meant. A mora had been broken by men who would not stand still. Iphicrates spent t...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/r/battle-of-lechaeum-wp/sw8r-battle-of-lechaeum-what-the-news-did.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Lechaeum: What Remains https://qualla.com/battle-of-lechaeum/ Photo credit Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0. Modern Lechaio sits where the ancient port did, at the western edge of the Corinth Canal, a quiet stretch of coast on the Corinthian Gulf. The hilltop where the Spartans made their last stand is no longer easy to identify with certainty - the shoreline has shifted, the marshes ha...

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