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Agesilaus Ii King Of Sparta

Agesilaus Ii King Of Sparta

A common increasing at Argos, in concert with Macedonian and Achaean troops, overwhelmed the Spartan garrison in Argos. Abandoning the Isthmus and Corinth, Cleomenes fought his way into Argos and had the upper hand when the Macedonian cavalry appeared. Routed, Cleomenes fled to Tegea, exactly where he heard of Agiatis’s death. Antigonus reinstated the wealthy, formed the Hellenic League, condemned Cleomenes as a revolutionary, and declared he had no quarrel with Sparta. A freelance writer and former element-time Professor of…

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