While Sparta emerged victorious in its fifth-century conflicts with Persia and (later) Athens, it proved unable to consolidate those successes and translate them into a lasting empire. Rome would later learn imperial lessons from both Sparta and Athens that allowed it to form a more successful empire. But why did Sparta fail? In Lecture Eight o...
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