59 - Agesilaus II: The Spartan Supremacy
Cost of Glory
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The Spartan Way of Life
There were pro-Sparta oligarchies across the land, most especially in the cities of Biosha surrounding Thebes. And Spartan governors, fixers as they called them, Harmosts, watched over local affairs. Xenophon sees what happened next as nothing short of divine retribution. Retribution in his eyes, that is, for the impiety of seizing the cadmia fortress on a holy day in times of peace.
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