Chæronea

Chæronea, a town in ancient Bœotia, near the river Cephissus, memorable for the disastrous defeat of the Athenians here by Philip of Macedon, 338 B.C. This defeat struck a death-blow to the liberties of Greece, and broke the heart of Isocrates; it was the 'dishonest victory' that 'killed with report that old man eloquent.' A colossal marble lion, together with the bones of 260 Greeks, was dug up here in 1880. Here also Sulla defeated the generals of Mithridates in 86 B.C. The famous Plutarch was a native of Chæronea.