The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 374
of the Greek mind that the newsof Theban triumph was very ill received in the city of her allyAthens. Athens might cherish a respectable hereditary feudwith Sparta, but Thebes she had always detested. Thebes washer next-door neighbour. Though you might have to fight aSpartan, you couldnt help… … THE FOURTH CENTURY Thebes and form an alliance upon equal terms with Sparta.But her action was not very vigorous. The nine years between the battles of Leuctra and Mantineaare commonly described by historians as a period of Thebanhegemony. It is true that Thebes was probably on land themost…
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