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After a few more years of fighting, in 387 BC the [[Peace of Antalcidas]] was established, according to which all Greek cities of [[Ionia]] would return to Persian control, and Persia's Asian border would be free of the Spartan threat.[ The effects of the war were to reaffirm Persia's ability to interfere successfully in Greek politics and to affirm Sparta's weakened hegemonic position in the Greek political system.][Fine, ''The Ancient Greeks'', 556–59] |
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After a few more years of fighting, in 387 BC the [[Peace of Antalcidas]] was established, according to which all Greek cities of [[Ionia]] would return to Persian control, and Persia's Asian border would be free of the Spartan threat.[ The effects of the war were to reaffirm Persia's ability to interfere successfully in Greek politics and to affirm Sparta's weakened hegemonic position in the Greek political system.][Fine, ''The Ancient Greeks'', 556–59] |
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Sparta suffered a severe military defeat to [[Epaminondas]] of Thebes at the [[Battle of Leuctra]].[{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXrsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT173 | title=The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy | isbn=978-0-300-22461-0 | last1=Rahe | first1=Paul Anthony | date=27 September 2016 | publisher=Yale University Press }}] |
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Sparta suffered a severe military defeat to [[Epaminondas]] of [[Theban hegemony|Thebes]] at the [[Battle of Leuctra]].[{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eXrsDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT173 | title=The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy | isbn=978-0-300-22461-0 | last1=Rahe | first1=Paul Anthony | date=27 September 2016 | publisher=Yale University Press }}] |
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As Spartan citizenship was inherited by blood, Sparta increasingly faced a helot population that vastly outnumbered its citizens.[{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hDn2DAAAQBAJ&dq=helots%20of%20the%20two%20regions%20appear%20to%20have%20outnumbered%20their%20masters%20by%20a%20margin%20of%20four%20%2C%20some%20say%20%2C%20but%20quite%20possibly%20even%20seven%20to%20one%20%3B%2021%20and%20in%20an%20emergency%20%2C%20the%20Spartans%20could%20never%20be%20fully%20confident%20that%20their%20associates%20w&pg=PA11 | title=The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy | isbn=978-0-300-21901-2 | last1=Rahe | first1=Paul Anthony | date=January 2016 | publisher=Yale University Press }}] The alarming decline of Spartan citizens was commented on by [[Aristotle]]. |
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As Spartan citizenship was inherited by blood, Sparta increasingly faced a helot population that vastly outnumbered its citizens.[{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hDn2DAAAQBAJ&dq=helots%20of%20the%20two%20regions%20appear%20to%20have%20outnumbered%20their%20masters%20by%20a%20margin%20of%20four%20%2C%20some%20say%20%2C%20but%20quite%20possibly%20even%20seven%20to%20one%20%3B%2021%20and%20in%20an%20emergency%20%2C%20the%20Spartans%20could%20never%20be%20fully%20confident%20that%20their%20associates%20w&pg=PA11 | title=The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy | isbn=978-0-300-21901-2 | last1=Rahe | first1=Paul Anthony | date=January 2016 | publisher=Yale University Press }}] The alarming decline of Spartan citizens was commented on by [[Aristotle]]. |
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