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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LX FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSUS TO THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS
- CHAP. LXI FROM THE DEATH OF FYRRHUS TO THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON
- CHAP. LXII FROM THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON TO THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA
- CHAP. LXIII FROM THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ACHÆANS AND ÆTOLIANS
- CHAP. LXIV FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ÆTOLIANS AND THE ACHÆANS TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION
- CHAP. LXV FROM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION TO THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME
- CHAP. LXVI FROM THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME TO THE REDUCTION OF GREECE INTO A ROMAN PROVINCE
- INDEX
CHAP. LXII - FROM THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON TO THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER LX FROM THE BATTLE OF IPSUS TO THE DEATH OF PYRRHUS
- CHAP. LXI FROM THE DEATH OF FYRRHUS TO THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON
- CHAP. LXII FROM THE ACCESSION OF ANTIGONUS DOSON TO THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA
- CHAP. LXIII FROM THE BATTLE OF SELLASIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ACHÆANS AND ÆTOLIANS
- CHAP. LXIV FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR BETWEEN THE ÆTOLIANS AND THE ACHÆANS TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION
- CHAP. LXV FROM THE PROCLAMATION OF THE LIBERTY OF GREECE UNDER ROMAN PROTECTION TO THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME
- CHAP. LXVI FROM THE EMBASSY OF CALLICRATES TO ROME TO THE REDUCTION OF GREECE INTO A ROMAN PROVINCE
- INDEX
Summary
Since the close of her disastrous struggle with Thebes, which deprived her of the fairest portion of her territory, and left her insulated and beset with hostile neighbours, Sparta has taken little share in the affairs of Greece. It is but seldom, and on extraordinary occasions that we have seen her name mentioned. The part however which we find her acting on these occasions is an honourable one, and worthy of her ancient renown; a struggle for the national independence, such as that in which Agis III. fell, or a gallant resistance in her own defence, such as she opposed to the superior forces of Demetrius and Pyrrhus. She appears indeed to have discarded all ambitious views, to have buried all thoughts of her old supremacy, and to have adopted a merely defensive policy; but her patriotism, her sense of honour, and her love of liberty, seem to have survived.
During the period on which we are now about to enter, she again for a time fills the most prominent place among the Greek states, and is engaged in a contest for the mastery of Peloponnesus, and we are in consequence enabled to learn something of the course of her internal history, which was intimately connected with this change in her political attitude.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 131 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1844