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The Corinthian War: Greece's Forgotten Coalition Against Sparta
After defeating Athens in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta's brutal hegemony sparked a backlash. This episode dives into the Corinthian War (395–387 BCE), where an unlikely coalition of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Thebes, and Persia fought to contain Spartan aggression. We explore the naval battles at Cnidus and the shocking Spartan defeats at Haliartus and Lechaeum. Lucas explains how the Persian satrap Pharnabazus and the Athenian admiral Conon rebuilt Athens' fleet, and how the war ended with the King's Peace—a treaty dictated by the Persian king Artaxerxes II that redrew the map…
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