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NSWAncient HistorySection IV (Historical Periods): Greece from 404 BC to the death of Philip II
Quick questions on Theban hegemony, Leuctra and Mantinea, 379 to 362 BC: HSC Ancient History
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What is the liberation of Thebes (379 BC)?Show answer
In 382 BC a Spartan officer, Phoebidas, seized the Cadmeia (the Theban acropolis) in peacetime while marching through, and installed a Spartan garrison propping up a narrow pro-Spartan oligarchy under Leontiades. This was a naked breach of the King's Peace of 387/6 BC (which guaranteed the autonomy of Greek states) and became the great symbol of Spartan arrogance in the years of its hegemony.
What is the road to Leuctra (the peace conference of 371 BC)?Show answer
In 371 BC a general peace conference met at Sparta to renew the King's Peace. Epaminondas insisted on swearing the oath for the whole Boeotian League rather than for Thebes alone, since Thebes now spoke for a federal state. The Spartan king Agesilaus II, Thebes's implacable enemy, refused, and struck Thebes from the treaty, effectively declaring it an outlaw. Within about three weeks the Spartan king Cleombrotus I, already in Phocis with an army, marched into Boeotia.
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