Theban invasion of Laconia
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the Theban invasion · the invasion of Laconia
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Politics
A Theban invasion of Spartan territory during which the women reportedly caused more confusion than the enemy.
and they showed this at the time of the Theban invasion, for they rendered no useful service, as the women do in other states, while they caused more confusion than the enemy.
Agesilaus
Massive coalition invasion of Laconia led by Epaminondas, the first hostile incursion into Spartan territory in six centuries.
But now they burst into an unravaged and inviolate land, and burned and plundered as far as the river and the city, and no one came out against them.