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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO VOL. X.
- Contents
- CHAPTER LXXVI From the Peace of Antalkidas down to the Subjugation of Olynthus by Sparta
- CHAPTER LXXVII From the Subjugation of Olynthus by the Lacedæmonians down to the Congress at Sparta, and Partial Peace, in 371 B.C.
- CHAPTER LXXVIII Battle of Leuktra and its consequences
- CHAPTER LXXIX From the Foundation of Messene and Megalopolis to the Death of Pelopidas
- CHAPTER LXXX From the Death of Pelopidas to the Battle of Mantines
- CHAPTER LXXXI Sicilian Affairs after the Destruction of the Athenian Armament before Syracuse
- CHAPTER LXXXII Sicily during the Despotism of the Elder Dionysius at Syracuse
- MAPS ANNEXED TO VOL. X.
CHAPTER LXXIX - From the Foundation of Messene and Megalopolis to the Death of Pelopidas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO VOL. X.
- Contents
- CHAPTER LXXVI From the Peace of Antalkidas down to the Subjugation of Olynthus by Sparta
- CHAPTER LXXVII From the Subjugation of Olynthus by the Lacedæmonians down to the Congress at Sparta, and Partial Peace, in 371 B.C.
- CHAPTER LXXVIII Battle of Leuktra and its consequences
- CHAPTER LXXIX From the Foundation of Messene and Megalopolis to the Death of Pelopidas
- CHAPTER LXXX From the Death of Pelopidas to the Battle of Mantines
- CHAPTER LXXXI Sicilian Affairs after the Destruction of the Athenian Armament before Syracuse
- CHAPTER LXXXII Sicily during the Despotism of the Elder Dionysius at Syracuse
- MAPS ANNEXED TO VOL. X.
Summary
Prodigious was the change operated throughout the Grecian world during the eighteen months between June 371 b.c. (when the general peace, including all except Thebes, was sworn at Sparta, twenty days before the battle of Leuktra), and the spring of 369 b.c., when the Thebans, after a victorious expedition into Peloponnesus, were reconducted home by Epaminondas.
Changes in Peloponnesus since the battle of Leuktra.
How that change worked in Peloponnesus, amounting to a partial re-constitution of the peninsula, has been sketched in the preceding chapter. Among most of the cities and districts hitherto dependent allies of Sparta, the local oligarchies, whereby Spartan influence had been maintained, were overthrown, not without harsh and violent reaction. Laconia had been invaded and laid waste, while the Spartans were obliged to content themselves with guarding their central hearth and their families from assault. The western and best half of Laconia had been wrested from them; Messênê had been constituted as a free city on their frontier; a large proportion of their Periœki and Helots had been converted into independent Greeks bitterly hostile to them; moreover the Arcadian population had been emancipated from their dependence, and organized into self-acting jealous neigh bours in the new city of Megalopolis, as well as in Tegea and Mantinea. The once philo-Laconian Tegea was now among the chief enemies of Sparta; and the Skiritæ, so long numbered as the bravest of the auxiliary troops of the latter, were now identified in sentiment with Arcadians and Thebans against her.
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- A History of Greece , pp. 331 - 425Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1852