58 - Agesilaus I: Persian Expedition
Cost of Glory
The Battle of Knitos
Xenophon: The battle at Coronilla had resolved nothing. This was a new great war, just beginning, and there was no end in sight. For a brief moment, Agisaleus and Lysander dreamed of a different way for Greece. But now it was time to face the old reality. Artaxerxes was smiling once again as the Persians took up their preferred position in this region,. Their ancient role of being absentee investors in an endless war among the mainland Greeks.
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