Dr. Roel Konijnendijk
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But when you're talking about the fall of a city, I do kind of want to see something more dramatic than saying, okay, well, they have to relegate themselves.
They have to acknowledge increasingly that they are just a second-rate power now.
The actual invasion and destruction of Spartan territory happens a few times, even with the Thebans, but they aren't able to take the city.
That doesn't happen until very much later.
But you do get these increasing sort of incremental stages of further reduction of Spartan power in the decades that follow.
Also, for instance, Philip II invades Sparta and strips away a number of its territories, gives them to neighboring states or makes them autonomous.
So Spartan territory keeps on shrinking further and further.
They have to give hostages to Alexander the Great after they try rebelling against him, which also obviously ends very badly.
And so you have these continuous attempts by the Spartans to try and say, look, we still matter.