Myronides was an Athenian general in 458 BCE, when he defeated the Corinthians at Megara, and again in 457 BCE, when he defeated the Boeotians at the Battle of Oenophyta. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Megara ( Greek:, "Big Houses" is an ancient city (pop Boeotia, Beotia, or Bœotia ( Greek: Βοιωτία - English biːˈoʊʃiə formerly Cadmeis was a region of Ancient Greece, north of the The Battle of Oenophyta took place between Athens and the Boeotian City-states in 457 BC during the First Peloponnesian War. It has been debated, but it is unlikely he was the same Myronides who was sent to Sparta with Cimon and Xanthippus and who served as general at the Battle of Plataea. The city of Sparta ( Doric Σπάρτα Attic Σπάρτη Cimon (in Greek, Κίμων &mdash Kimōn) (510 Athens - 450 BC Citium, Cyprus) was an Athenian Xanthippus ( Gr) was a wealthy Athenian politician and general during the early part of the fifth century BC The Battle of Plataea was the final major Battle of the Greco-Persian Wars in southern Greece.