10-29-2011, 12:12 AM
I always approach Hanson's factual stuff with a little trepidation - therefore I'm really not sure what I would make of his attempts at fiction ...
In any event - the events under consideration were not The End of Sparta per se. The end of Imperial Sparta and of Classical Sparta - perhaps. The end of dominating Greece and instant reliance upon allies doing her bidding - certainly. But not the actual 'end' of that peculiar city-state, which actually survived throughout the Hellenistic and successive period better than Thebes or many of her contemporaries like Corinth, Athens etc.; and periodically made attempts at a comeback (most successfully in the 220s).
In any event - the events under consideration were not The End of Sparta per se. The end of Imperial Sparta and of Classical Sparta - perhaps. The end of dominating Greece and instant reliance upon allies doing her bidding - certainly. But not the actual 'end' of that peculiar city-state, which actually survived throughout the Hellenistic and successive period better than Thebes or many of her contemporaries like Corinth, Athens etc.; and periodically made attempts at a comeback (most successfully in the 220s).
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[size=75:2kpklzm3]Xerxes - "What did the guy in the pass say?" ... Scout - "Μολὼν λαβέ my Lord - and he meant it!!!"[/size]
[size=75:2kpklzm3]Xerxes - "What did the guy in the pass say?" ... Scout - "Μολὼν λαβέ my Lord - and he meant it!!!"[/size]
