After Sparta Crushed Athens, Thebes Destroyed Sparta at Leuctra
After Sparta Crushed Athens, Thebes Destroyed Sparta at Leuctra
On a summer morning in 371 BC, the soldiers who had terrified the entire Mediterranean world for over a century formed their famous lines on a plain in Boeotia — and by afternoon, the myth of Spartan invincibility lay broken in the dust alongside hundreds of their finest warriors. Most people...