[zot]

Thanks for the ping. A lot of people don't know that Sparta won.

[muawiyah]

In the meantime Athenian agents subverted Thebes into establishing its own democracy. Thebes, then, almost effortlessly, reduced Sparta to a whiney, pitiful, denaturized shell of its former self.

Athens never really recovered either ~ Thebes made sure of that.

Then the Macedonians did their thing and the rest is history.