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39 - Lysander Aftermath: or, How to Keep Fighting

Cost of Glory

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The Greatest Glamour of Sparta and Lysander

Lysander became an object of terror and resentment to many greeks who wrote about him. Most sources, plutarch included, largely reflect the pro athenian and even pro theban political perspective on lysander's time. And this is really a weakness as serious as any that you might find in the spartan constitution: it failed to produce men who would tell their side of history"

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