![]() The final two books will presumably be devoted to the last fourteen brutal years of the Peloponnesian War (a proposed volume 5, 418–404/3 B.C.) and the post-war decades of Sparta’s unilateral but shaky dominance, and her eventual decline (volume 6, 403–362 B.C.). 1 His envisioned hexalogy will eventually cover three centuries of Spartan growth, dominance, and gradual decline. Rahe’s fourth volume on Sparta’s history, its culture, and its rivalries with democratic Athens, entitled Sparta’s Second Attic War. The Spartan surge between 446 and 418 B.C. That battle mostly ensured that Sparta would not lose in any renewal of the stalemated Second Peloponnesian War. The continuing, hard-fought Spartan upswing was capped off by her dramatic victory at the Battle of Mantinea (418 B.C.), which saw Sparta prevail over Athens-Sparta’s chief Peloponnesian rival-and surrogate Athenian allies. At the war’s end, Sparta had established itself as the only impediment left to an increasingly Athenian Greece.įourteen years later, a second, and far deadlier, Peloponnesian War broke out. S parta’s check of imperial Athens in the inconclusive so-called First Peloponnesian War (460–445 B.C.) foreshadowed a remarkable subsequent twenty-eight-year growth in Lacedaemonian power and influence. ![]()
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