2nd Attica Sea alliance
Quite
quick, the Theban
got again liberated from the hegemony of Sparta and united Boeotia
another time to one
State. Athens founded
the 2nd Attic Sea Alliance in which Theban and even the Tyrant Iason of
Thessaly were members for a while. In 371 BC once again came up fights
between Athena, Theban and Sparta which
ended in a general piece, but in which Sparta
didn't accept Boeotia as one state. In the following
war the Thebans defeated the Spartans in the battle of Leuktra. Here
ended the position of supremacy of Sparta and got replaced by the Thebans. Out of
this the Peloponnesus Alliance followed signs of disintegration, the
Arcadians and with the help of Theban even Messenia established their
one states. Sparta had
to accept the hard defeat and made piece with Boeotia.
The
seizure of power by the Thebans made Athens
worried and they founded 369 BC a Defensive Alliance with Sparta and 366
BC also with Arcadia. Soon
the Arcadian Alliance splitted
again and the northern part formed a Anti-Boeotia coalition with Elis, Achaia, Phleius, Athen
und Sparta. In
362 BC Boeotia won the
first battle against the Alliance near Montineia,
but their supreme commander Epameinondas
got killed. The Theban
power was strongly fixed on this one person and the war ended in a
general piece. With this Theban lost his power over Greece after a short
duration.
Athens
somehow couldn't take advantage out of this situation, even worth.
Many members left the Attic Alliance and also the
resulting war to recover the members between
357 - 55 BC didn't succeed at all.
The second Attic Sea Alliance disintegrate, without
touching the first one in seize and power. The
social structures of City-States in the 4 Century, prevented powerful
and huge unions. With the rise of Macedonia a lot of things will change
and as a result it will stand the end of the Greek cities.
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