38 - Lysander 3: Kings of Sparta
Cost of Glory
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A Lame Kingship Oracle?
With king agus dead, there's a dispute about who the throne should go to. A spartan seer produces an allegedly ancient prophecy in the typical hexameter verse that said something like, beware, o sparta, of a lame kingship. The thing that would make sparta's kingship truly hobble would be a bastard son of alcibiades on the throne. But lysander was wise on this point, because indeed, few spartans really wanted that. And so agesilaus is made king. Finally. Lysander's years of patience are paying off. He now has in place everything he needs to execute a grand scheme to fulfil sparta
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