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59 – Agesilaus II: The Spartan Supremacy

59 – Agesilaus II: The Spartan Supremacy

59 – Agesilaus II: The Spartan Supremacy

Episode Length: 86:28

59 – Agesilaus II: The Spartan Supremacy Episode Transcript

Sparta’s greatest king, from his grandest moments, to his most challenging setbacks.  394-371 BC.

In this episode:
-Isolating your enemies
-Working through intermediaries
-The power of culture
-Democracy vs. Oligarchy
-personal integrity vs state integrity

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Here’s a nice map of ancient Greece 

Places: 

Thebes 
Corinth 
Athens (in Attica) 
Argos 
Sparta/Lacedaemon (in Laconia) 
Acrocorinth
Peloponnese 
Cadmeia 
Olynthus 
Piraeus (Port city of Athens) 
Elis
Arcadia
Mantinea 
Olympia 
Thespiae (in Boeotia) 
Plataea (in Boeotia) 
Leuctra (in Boeotia) 
 
 
People:  
Agesilaus 
Xenophon 
Antalcidas (of Sparta) 
Cynisca (of Sparta) 
Leontiades (of Thebes) 
Ismenias (of Thebes) 
Phoebidas – Spartan Commander 
Agesipolis – King of Sparta 
Pelopidas (of Thebes) 
Epaminondas (of Thebes) 
Sphodrias – Spartan Commander 
Cleonymus – son of Sphodrias 
Archidamus – son of Agesilaus 
Cleombrotus – King of Sparta