Pelopidas

Illustrating political theorist Benoît Pelopidas’s observation that luck has long played a “crucial role ... in preserving the world from nuclear devastation,” the BrahMos accident was not more consequential because of three lucky circumstances.

Some of the greatest achievements of Epaminondas and Pelopidas are passed over in silence.

Nor is any attempt made to appraise the policy of the great Theban leaders, Pelopidas and Epaminondas.

Throughout life Epaminondas was distinguished for the friendship subsisting between him and Pelopidas, with whom he served in the Spartan campaign, 385 B.C.

He first comes into notice in the attack upon Mantineia in 385, when he fought on the Spartan side and saved the life of his future colleague Pelopidas.