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If you want, you can support me financially: / michaelzerjadtke https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Micha... To the article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/ar... 4:35 - Sources 13:40 - Geography 23:50 - HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 26:38 - First and Second Messenian War 34:36 - Peloponnesian League 36:50 - Persian Wars and Consequences 48:19 - Pentecontaetia and Third Messenian War 57:47 - Peloponnesian War 1:12:51 - Spartan-Persian War 1:15:10 - Corinthian War and King's Peace 1:19:03 - Battle of Leuctra 1:25:24 - Theban Hegemony and Arcadian League Literature: Cartledge, Paul: Sparta and Lakonia. A regional history, 1300 - 362 BC, London 2002. Christ, Karl: Sparta, ways of research, volume 622, Darmstadt 1986. Clauss, Manfred, Sparta. An introduction to its history and civilization, Munich 1983. Dreher, Martin: Athens and Sparta, Munich 2001. Pothou, Vassiliki; Powell, Anton (ed.): Ancient Sparta, Stuttgart 2017. Powell, Anton: Athens and Sparta. Constructing Greek political and social history from 478 BC, London 2001 Schulz, Raimund: Athens and Sparta, Darmstadt 2015. Welwei, Karl-Wilhelm: Rise and decline of an ancient great power, Stuttgart 2007.