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I have always been fascinated by Greek history and the juxtaposition with Roman, Persian and Turkish history. Greece dominated some of the world for a time, but then succumbed to internal and external forces.
Anyway, this caught my attention yesterday.
Epaminondas - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaminondas
The Spartans were an influence on myself in my early years.
Anyway, this caught my attention yesterday.
Epaminondas - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaminondas
The Spartans were an influence on myself in my early years.
Wikipedia-Epaminondas said:Epaminondas (Greek: Eπαμεινώνδας) (c. 418 BC–362 BC) was a Theban general and statesman of the 4th century BC who transformed the Ancient Greek city-state of Thebes, leading it out of Spartan subjugation into a preeminent position in Greek geopolitics. In the process he broke Spartan military power with his victory at Leuctra and liberated the Messenian helots, a group of Peloponnesian Greeks who had been enslaved under Spartan rule for some 200 years. Epaminondas reshaped the political map of Greece, fragmented old alliances, created new ones, and supervised the construction of entire cities. He was militarily influential as well, inventing and implementing several major battlefield tactics.
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