THE SPARTAN SUPREMACY: 412-371 BC

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For two centuries Sparta's warriors were acknowledged as second to none. Yet at only one period in its long history, in the late fourth and early third century BC, did the home of these grim warriors seem set to entrench itself as the dominant power in the Greek world.

This period includes the latter stages of the Peloponnesian War from 412 BC to the Spartan victory in 402, and then down to the Spartan defeat by the Thebans at Leuctra in 371 BC, where it all began to unravel for the Spartan Empire. Covers the tumultuous first decades of the fourth century BC, with many interesting characters here, including Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, Pelopidas, and Epaminondas, to name but a few. In addition there are several campaigns and battles that are reported in enough detail to make them interesting and comprehensible to the reader.