O. Kiriakov, PhD student
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/1728-2640.2018.138.4
THE FIRST SPARTAN CAMPAIGN OF THE BOEOTIAN LEAGUE
The article is devoted to the foreign policy of the Boeotian League after the battle of Leuctra. The author focused on the main events of the military campaign 370-369 B.C. It was an important historical event because it is the first campaign when Spartan soldiers defended their native town. The study is based on a wide range of sources and historiography. The author also reconstructed the trial of Pelopidas and Epameinondas in Thebes. This trial reveals internal political struggle in the Boiotian League.
Keywords: The Boeotian League, the foreign policy, Sparta, Thebes, Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Epaminondas.
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