Battle of Leuktra 371 BC

[hoplite14gr]

Hmm....can't say I disagree.

All this mess though was forseen last century by various people.
Both in Athens and Sparta were fractions believing that Panhellenism was the only medicine for ensuring safety of the mainland.

Yet the bane of Greece was and is petty politics. Demagoges made sure that people like Pausanias and Cimon would be exterminated physicaly and moraly by appealing to the basest instincts of the mobs. The rest is history as we know it.

Unfortunately info on Epameinondas come from excrepts of Plutarch and C. Nepo.

KInd regards