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"Sparta broke with a sharp snap because it could not bend. The Spartans failed to rebound after Leuctra because they could not find a way to deviate from entrenched habits of rigid hierarchy, state terrorism, and social conformity. Leuctra was Sparta's fate because those habits led the Spartans to surround themselves by enemies abroad, while simultaneously feeding the angry hunger of those restive internal subjects who would happily have eaten the few remaining Similars raw."
"revolutionary plot by a group of Inferiors, led by one Cinadon. The hatred of Cinadon and his fellows for the Spartan system was summed up in their expressed willingness to 'devour the Similars raw.' Like the boy and the fox, Spartan society was, almost literally, being consumed from the inside."
Josiah Ober and originally published in the Summer 1998 edition of MHQ. Journal of Military History.
Sparta fell because it could not maintain (replace) an adequate number of its warrior elite similars. They relied heavily on helots to make up the numbers and these helots went from slaves to free men mercenaries.
Sparta made too many enemies with all around them and had internal bickering with non elites.
Spartas enemies learnt their tactics and how to beat them over decades.
Militarily the tactic sending too few men makes victory impossible and death inevitable, even if its heroic.
Sparta did not have an adequate economic income,
ALL ANSWERS ARE SOMEWHAT TRUE AND AT THE SAME TIME FALSE>THE REASON WAS TIME AND CHANGE. Sparta did not fall when it was in it's peak,but long after,when there were only crumbles of earlier glory.So it has nothing to do with flexibility but simply TIME.
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∙ 14y agoThere are many reasons why the spartan won the Peleponisian War, one reason of why that happened is because Athens thought that the Spartans were no where near. But, turns out that the Spartans were right there when Athens went to get food because Sparta had burned all of their crops.
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What does Sparta control?
Sparta controls nothing
Metics belonged who Athens or Sparta?
SPARTA!
Was the Sparta Girls who was trained in gymnastics?
Sparta
Is sporticous in Sparta?
Spartacus was Roman, and a Gladiator. Sparta Is in Greece. Sparta fell long before Spartacus was conceived.
What myths are associated with Sparta?
Sparta is located in Greek so most if not all Greek myths are associated with Sparta
Did Sparta ever fall to Persia?
No
Who was the woman who saw the fall of Troy and the enslavement of the women?
This was Helen of Sparta, also known as Helen of Troy, daughter of Zeus and Leda who was the Queen of Sparta. She was the woman who experienced the fall of Troy and the subsequent enslavement of women.
What occurred first crusades rennisance fall of roman empire or wars between Athens and Sparta?
The war (The Peloponnesian War) between Athens and Sparta was , chronologically , first .
How did Sparta come to a fall?
Over a series of wars, most of which it won, Sparta lost most of their military manpower, and could no longer compete with the rising power of Thebes.
What was the reason for the fall of Sparta?
TIME Sparta fell long,centuries after it's glorious time.So it did not clash on the height of it's power but long after the days of heroes were gone.And they were gone shortly after Thermopylae.
How does Aphrodite help Paris?
Makes Helen of Sparta, daughter of Zeus and the most beautiful woman in the world, fall in love with him.
How so you say this is Sparta in German?
This is Sparta! = Dies ist Sparta!
Was leonidas a conscious hero?
If, as I'm guessing, you mean Leonidas I of Sparta 520-480bc, then yes he was. The prophecy he received before Xerxes invasion was: "Either a king dies on the fields of Thermopylae, or Sparta will fall" Sparta I should add, was a Dinarchy, they had two consecutive kings. It was Leotychdes (The other King) who wished to travel to Thermopylae to die for Sparta, but Leonidas managed to get himself to go, thus Sparta lost one of her greatest leaders, but acheived her goal of defending herself. He figured his life was a small price to pay for the freedom of Hellas and Sparta, a now ageless concept
What is the landscape of the Sahara Desert?
sparta, sparta and SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this Sparta blasfamy or madness?
Sparta, this is most definitly Sparta!
Who was a rival to Athens?
Sparta ***** The persian empire.
What enemies did Athens and Sparta have?
Athens was enemies with Sparta and Sparta was enemies with Athens
