HIST 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Amun, Northern Greece, Eunuch
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By the 4th century, sparta finally began to decline (the peloponnesian war lasted for 27 years that defeated athens and exhausted sparta [fighting against each other] to their own mutual demise) This allows the rise of a third power = thebes. Thebans thought of macedon as slightly barbaric (different language, some shocking customs, celebrated violence, seemed not as advanced - still in the. Pelopidas took philip ii as his young lover (object of sexual desire, but also educated the boy) Lead to being taught theban military sciences, learned what made the. Thebans successful in war (they had even beaten the spartans, they were the strongest power) Sarissa = long spear replaced the much shorter spartan doru stabbing spear. Philip ii assumes the throne of macedon upon pelopidas" death. Consolidated all of northern greece under his command. Lost an eye to getting hit in the face with a barbed arrow, its removal left him disfigured.