THE MYTH OF SPARTAN INVINCIBILITY IS DESTROYED AT THE BATTLE OF LEUCTRA

Originally posted on The Deadliest Blogger: Military History Page:

Epaminondas of Thebes Changes the Face of Warfare With the Oblique Attack

The Peloponnesian War indisputably established Spartaas the paramount power in the Greek World. Though that long conflict had been waged, ostensibly, by Sparta to free the Greek city-states of the Delian League from Athenian dominance; the Spartan victory merely replaced Athenian hegemony with Spartan.

Though superb soldiers, the Spartans were educationall...