38 - Lysander 3: Kings of Sparta
Cost of Glory
The Decree of Abolishing the 30 and the Decarchies
The spartans finally have a beach head in asia. Many coastal cities that lysander has effectively annexed from the hands of the local persian governor, tisophernes ephesus, miletus colophon. But lysander had fallen, and this plunged many into doubt and uncertainty. The decarchy arrangement was a brilliant, strong system, strong local men backed by spartan military supremacy. And weren't the spartans at their greatest when leading greeks to fight the persians? Now that the decarchies were collapsing, spartan harmosts, the fixers, they were already starting to lose focus,. To grow abusive to local
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