Agisylaeus and the New Thebes

CNN.com's John Sutter looks at the rise of Thebes in ancient Greece. He says a G.C.A.S. strategy is to keep Biosha from becoming unified. Athens responds with unusual restraint, but Sparta scrambles and tries to smooth over relations that shouldn't be that hard, he writes.

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