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 legends true warriors philosophers or

architecture so incredible that it's

embraced even today in different forms

also you may think abouts classic Athens

or Sparta the ancient Greek world was a

place where extraordinary civilizations

emerged from the Greek Dark Ages of the

12th to 9th century BC to the end of

what we know is antiquity don't think

about ancient or classic Greece as a

single country no such unified ancient

Greek state with Athens or Sparta as its

capital ever existed but a multitude of

cities each with its own rule and form

of government each one developed in its

own way there were alliances packs or

trades between them but also hostilities

and looking at the bigger picture there

was a lot of rivalry especially between

two of them classical Greece was a

period of about two centuries in Greek

culture 5th and 4th centuries BC to be

more exact this century is essentially

studied from the Athenian outlook

because Athens has left us more

narratives plays and other written works

than the other ancient Greek states this

Classical period saw a lot of conflict

that will remain in history forever the

subjugation of some Greek city-states

ends the biggest threats of the ancient

Greek civilization until that time was

on the horizon the mighty Persian Empire

expanded hugely in these decades

conquering vast territories in the east

and west conquering lands from Bactria

to the Arabic sea then Lydia

Babylon foe n Shia and Egypt the

Persians were the Masters of war and

invasion the mainland Greece was

threatened by this new possible invader

but also was a reason for many

city-states to ally against the common

enemy we can start to look at the whole

Greek world as one that's the beginning

of the Ionian revolt of 500 bees

this event provokes the Persian invasion

of 492 BC the Persians were defeated in

490 BC a second Persian attempt was in

481 to 479 BC which failed as well even

if the Persians marched through the

mainland Greece at an important point

they were defeated the ancient and

popular battles of Thermopylae and

Artemisium changed the course of history

for the ancient Greeks the Persian

attempts to conquer Greece lasted for

more than 20 years

although the Persian invader was more

powerful due to the military innovation

strategy and courage of the Greeks

the invasion was repealed near the pass

of Thermopylae the spartan king leonidas

led his 300 men plus a help from other

Greeks and resisted for three days

against thousands of Persians the story

is not just about one mighty moment of

history but the Spartan way of life was

shown in this legendary battle the

Spartans focused their loyalty to the

state and military service at age of 7

Spartan boys started their education and

military training and it is said that

they lived in barracks and they trained

consistently even in times of peace the

Delian League then formed under Athenian

hegemony and his Athens's instrument

Athenian success brought a direct

conflicts with Sparta the Peloponnesian

War happened in 431 BC after a brief

peace the war resumed to Sparta's

advantage Athens was defeated in 404 BC

and Sparta became the biggest force of

the Greek world the end of the

Peloponnesian War left Sparta the master

of Greece but the narrow outlook of the

Spartan warrior elite did not suit them

to this role in 395 BC the Spartan

rulers removed Lysander from office and

Sparta lost their naval supremacy Athens

Argos Thieves and Corinth the latter two

former Spartan allies challenged

Sparta's dominance in the Corinthian war

which ended inconclusively in 387 BC

the Corinthian war revealed a

significant dynamic that was occurring

in Greece while Athens and Sparta fought

each other to exhaustion thebes was

rising to a position of dominance among

the various Greek city-states that same

year Sparta concluded the Treaty of

antalcidas with Persia the agreement

turned over the Greek cities of Ionia

and Cyprus reversing a hundred years of

Greek victories against Persia Sparta

then tried to further weaken the power

of Thebes which led to a war in Thebes

allied with its old enemy half ins in

378 BC the reaction to Spartan control

over Thebes was broken by a popular

uprising within Thebes before going

further on than that we have to

understand why Sparta was so good at war

since its beginning Sparta was ruled by

a dire key this meant that Sparta had

two kings ruling concurrently throughout

its entire history the two king ships

were both hereditary vested in the

Aegean dynasty and the Yuri Ponte

dynasty there is a legend that says the

hereditary lines of these two dynasties

emerged from urine Finney's and proxies

twin descendants of Hercules it said

that they have conquered Sparta two

generations after the Trojan War life as

a Spartan similar was one of privilege

but not of ease at birth the young

Spartan male was brought before a board

of elders and examined for physical

deformities if he was not up to standard

he was carried to a nearby gorge where

he was left to die of exposure at age

seven a boy who had survived his initial

review was taken from his mother to

begin his formal education disobeying an

order or demonstrating any hint of fear

during battle were further grounds for

expulsion

there were several inferior casts of

persons who had fallen of whose

ancestors had fallen from the ranks of

the elite similares each was given a

derogatory name such as inferiors or

tremblers

after the year of 404 BC when Athens was

defeated Sparta made and broke alliances

as they wished and this created

consequences due to having good

relations some Spartans engaged in

foolish greedy or opportunistic military

operations and this sometimes happened

in contravention of treaty obligations

and with traditional Greek morals they

found that their governments and

officials were willing to turn a blind

eye on their bad habits

the popularity of Sparta was going down

the other Greeks whether traditional

allies or enemies of Sparta became

increasingly unhappy with Spartan

hegemony and in time a new anti Spartan

alliance was organized the Spartans

tried to maintain the position as rulers

of the Greek world with authority being

expressed with their military might and

their military was strong Spartan

hoplites were still without equal but in

time more and more casualties appeared

and Sparta could not afford many more of

these costly victories every battlefield

casualty meant one less warrior to stand

against Sparta's enemies moreover it was

no longer clear that Sparta's absolute

domination of traditional hoplite

tactics would last forever in 390 the

Spartans were stunned at the defeat of

an isolated Spartan regiment and a loss

of some 250 men meanwhile Sparta's

enemies were learning more and more

about Sparta's military tactics moving

forward on from what happened in 378 BC

the reaction to Spartan control over

Thebes was broken by a popular uprising

within Thebes the Theban army was

reorganized and began to free the towns

from their Spartan Garrison's Theban

general pelopidas won a great victory

over a much larger spartan force in 375

BC Theban Authority grows so

spectacularly in such a short time that

Athens came to mistrust the growing

feeble

Athens began to consolidate its position

again through the formation of a second

Athenian League in 371 the

Theban army led by Eponine das inflicted

a bloody defeat on spartan forces as the

battle of leuctra sparta lost a large

part of its army and 400 of its 2,000

citizen troops

yep amina disses victory ended a long

history of spartan military prestige and

dominance over greece as the period of

Spartan hegemony the decisive defeat of

the Spartan hoplites army by the armed

forces of Thebes at the battle of

leuctra in 371 BC ended an epoch in

Greek military history and permanently

altered the Greek balance of power one

by one the old certainties of the Golden

Age of the fifth century has been

challenged and overthrown but the image

of Spartan military invincibility had

until this moment remained a secure

Bastion once the very sight and sound of

an advancing line of Spartan soldiers

had been enough to break the nerves of

opponents even before the shock of arms

when we look more closely at the history

of Sparta as a military society the

collapse of leuctra starts to make sense

by the time they met the Thebans their

Sparta had long been in serious trouble

it was only a matter of time before

someone found a way to exploit Sparta's

profound in her weakness the story of

Sparta's decline and fall is an

objective lesson in the intimate

relationship between social organization

and military power Sparta proved to be a

devious self-deluded and hopelessly

confused society as the very moment of

its most notable success the epitome of

the Greek hoplite republic sparta was in

the end unable to field enough hoplites

warriors to stave off military disaster

even though Sparta never fully recovered

from its losses it was able to continue

as a regional power over two centuries

they even became allies with the Romans

and under Roman rule this was a free

city and a tourist attraction for the

Roman elite but in the end of 396 AD was

sacked by the Visigoths

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