The Spartan Assembly's Decision to Declare War

Thucydides records two speeches made by the Spartans here one by king archadamus and another by sthenolatus One of the e-force for that year who happened to be presiding over the meeting on that day Archadamus had a reputation of being wise and moderate. He clearly didn't want to go to war with Athens But he realized that the speech of the Corinthian and Athenians had changed the mood in Sparta And so he thought that if the Spartans simply voted on the question of war now They would not only vote yes, but they would vote toGo to war immediately. Stenolatus said quote all Spartans who are of the opinion that the treaty has been