Dr. Roel Konijnendijk

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.

We still have manpower.

We still have money.

We still have wealth.

We still have territory.

Let's try and expand it.

Let's try and go back.

And they never really give that up.

throughout the third century.

Exactly.

That's a century after this.

That's 222 when the battle of Selassie happens, when essentially the Spartans provoke the Macedonians and the Macedonians come down to meet them.

You never want this to happen.

But at that point, they've been defeated several times by the Macedonians by that point.

They've defeated in the Crimean-Idean war and