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Pelopidas
Pelopidas was a Theban general and statesman who led the exiles who freed Thebes from its Spartan garrison in 379 BCE. With Epaminondas he revived the Boeotian League, commanded the Sacred Band at Leuctra in 371 BCE and helped make Thebes the leading power in Greece. He was killed in 364 BCE at the Battle of Cynoscephalae, fighting Alexander of Pherae in Thessaly.
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