Tristan Hughes
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Do they capitalize on their success and Sparta's weak and they know that feeling is going through the Greek cities that maybe Sparta's not the titan it once was?
Do they then decide, now's the time to strike.
We won this battle but we are still hundreds of kilometers from Sparta.
Do we now march more towards where Sparta is?
to make it clear to the people who live in Sparta and around there that, yes, this wasn't just a one-off far away.
Your allies you once had are no longer there, and your power is now much clearly weaker.
And Mycenae is that land to the left of the Spartan peninsula, at the bottom of the Peloponnese?
emphatically and inveterately hostile to megalopolis is a strong city from the start it's got strong in the time of the successes there's a big siege there and everything so you know and that's only about 50 years or so later so it has big walls already a formidable city that's created and built at that time overlooking the spartan homeland so it's quite yeah significant
Is there any last attempt, or maybe not even last attempt, but it seems very much that Sparta's star is very much dwindling at this point.
Is there any last attempt, if Agaseleos is still there, I know he's old at the time, but to try and revive Spartan fortunes once again, to bring it back from these humiliations, quite frankly, by Thebes?
Sometimes you get the Battle of Mantinea, 362 is like another last hurrah of the Spartans, but how much truth can we look into that?
So even though they kind of hang out in their own beliefs and in what they believe, is it fair to say then that by the 360s and then the 350s, that Sparta has well and truly fallen by this time?
What's that one thing when Philip II of Macedon comes down and like,
The saying of the Spartans probably relates to that.
The one-word laconic response, what's that story?
As we all know, as those decades go on, you do see the rise of Macedon, Alexander the Great and his successors.