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- Frontmatter
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- CHAPTER XXXVII FROM THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDES TO THE END OF THE WAR BETWEEN SPARTA AND OLYNTHUS
- CHAP. XXXVIII FROM THE END OF THE WAR WITH OLYNTHUS TO THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA
- CHAP. XXXIX FROM THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA TO THE FOUNDING OF MESSENA
- CHAP. XL FROM THE FOUNDING OF MESSENA TO THE BATTLE OF MANTINEA
- CHAP. XLI PHILIP OF MACEDON
- CHAP. XLII FROM PHILIP'S ESTABLISHMENT ON THE THRONE OF MACEDONIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR
- CHAP. XLIII FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR TO THE FALL OF OLYNTHUS
- CHAP. XLIV FROM THE FALL OF OLYNTHUS TO THE END OF THE SACRED WAR
- APPENDIX
CHAP. XXXVIII - FROM THE END OF THE WAR WITH OLYNTHUS TO THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- CHAPTER XXXVII FROM THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDES TO THE END OF THE WAR BETWEEN SPARTA AND OLYNTHUS
- CHAP. XXXVIII FROM THE END OF THE WAR WITH OLYNTHUS TO THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA
- CHAP. XXXIX FROM THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA TO THE FOUNDING OF MESSENA
- CHAP. XL FROM THE FOUNDING OF MESSENA TO THE BATTLE OF MANTINEA
- CHAP. XLI PHILIP OF MACEDON
- CHAP. XLII FROM PHILIP'S ESTABLISHMENT ON THE THRONE OF MACEDONIA TO THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR
- CHAP. XLIII FROM THE END OF THE SOCIAL WAR TO THE FALL OF OLYNTHUS
- CHAP. XLIV FROM THE FALL OF OLYNTHUS TO THE END OF THE SACRED WAR
- APPENDIX
Summary
Thus by a vigorous and dexterous use of the advantages which she gained from the peace of Antalcidas, Sparta had advanced some steps nearer than she had ever been before to a complete subjugation of Greece. If her old rival had now recovered her independence, Thebes was reduced to a state of subjection like that in which Athens had been held by the Thirty. Within the peninsula the hostility of Argos was counterpoised by the attachment of the newly-restored Corinthian oligarchy: and the fate of Mantinea and of Phlius struck the smaller states with awe. The acquisition of Olynthus raised her reputation no less than it immediately strengthened her power. To one who considers the dangers — at this time completely veiled from human foresight — which really impended over the liberty of Greece, the establishment of the Spartan dominion may seem to have been, as at least the lighter evil, a desirable event. Such it would certainly have been, if it could have been effected so as not to excite irritation and alarm. But the causes which made the Spartan ascendancy generally odious, rendered it also insecure. Pleas might be found for the proceedings against Phlius, and Mantinea, and Olynthus. But the seizure of the Cadmea was so glaring an act of injustice, that even at Sparta, according to Xenophon, no attempt was made to defend it except on the score of expediency.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 25 - 79Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1838