031. A League of their own
Spartan History Podcast - A podcast by Steven
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EPISODE 31 A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWNLikely by around 550 BCE, Sparta had the most powerful military in ancient Greece. They used that to their favour and created a coalition of Peloponnesian cities all bound to Sparta through unequal treaties of relative, mutual alliance. Called the, Lakedaimonians and their allies by ancient authors we know this union as the, Peloponnesian League.In the episode I get right into the nuts and bolts of how the early league formed and introduce a little of the backg...