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↑ Historians History of the World, Editor: Henry Smith Williams vol 4 pp 142-3.Munn, The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 BC (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993) ↑ Historians History of the World, Editor: Henry Smith Williams vol 4 p142.↑ "Spartans, a new history", Nigel Kennell, 2010, p140.↑ "Spartans, a new history", Nigel Kennell, 2010, p139.↑ Historians History of the World, Editor: Henry Smith Williams vol 4 p140.However the resulting battle at Leuktra would be a decisive Spartan defeat. Most of Greece implemented the treaty which meant that Thebes faced the Spartan expedition against her alone. A peace treaty was agreed but things went seriously awry at the signing - Epaminondas insisted that he should sign for the Boeotians as a whole rather than just Thebes, at which the Spartan king Agesilaus struck the name of Thebes off the list of signatories. Though the alliance held, Athens insisted on negotiations with Sparta. The Plateans were expelled by the Thebans and found asylum in Athens where they were a strong voice against Thebes.
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The capture of Platea put the Theban-Athenian under strain. In 375 BCE there was a renewal of the Kings peace but this lasted no longer than a few months. In 375 BCE Athens mounted 2 successful expeditions - one to the north Aegean under Chabrias and a second round the Peloponnese to North West Greece under Timotheos son of Konon who won the battle of Alyzeia in Akania. The result was the defeat of the Spartan fleet at the Battle of Naxos at the hands of a predominately Athenian fleet commanded by Chabrias in 376 BCE. Sparta then sent a fleet in and attempted to blockade Athens. An expedition in 376 BCE led by King Cleombrotus was blocked at the passes of Kithairon. Mark Munn argues that it is likely that the Dema wall was built at this time to defend Attica.
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Two expeditions against Thebes led by King Agesilaus achieved little. However, he was acquitted which led Athens to declare for Thebes The War Sphodrias had not acted under orders and was brought to trial. That winter Sphodrias attempted a raid on Piraeus which ended in fiasco. An expedition against Thebes was mounted led by Kleombrotus achieved little but left a garrison in Thespiae under Sphodrias.
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In 378 BCE a revolt in Thebes led to the assassination of the ruling 3 man junta and the expulsion of the Spartan garrison.
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