Sparta's greatest king, from his grandest moments, to his most challenging setbacks.  394-371 BC.

In this episode:
-Isolating your enemies
-Working through intermediaries
-The power of culture
-Democracy vs. Oligarchy
-personal integrity vs state integrity

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Here's a nice map of ancient Greece 

Places: 

Thebes 

Corinth 

Athens (in Attica) 

Argos 

Sparta/Lacedaemon (in Laconia) 
Acrocorinth

Peloponnese 

Cadmeia 

Olynthus 

Piraeus (Port city of Athens) 
Elis
Arcadia

Mantinea 

Olympia 

Thespiae (in Boeotia) 

Plataea (in Boeotia) 

Leuctra (in Boeotia) 

People:  

Agesilaus 

Xenophon 

Antalcidas (of Sparta) 

Cynisca (of Sparta) 

Leontiades (of Thebes) 

Ismenias (of Thebes) 

Phoebidas - Spartan Commander 

Agesipolis - King of Sparta 

Pelopidas (of Thebes) 

Epaminondas (of Thebes) 

Sphodrias - Spartan Commander 

Cleonymus - son of Sphodrias 

Archidamus - son of Agesilaus 

Cleombrotus - King of Sparta