Arrogance In Sparta

n campaigns to control the arrogance and to protect all of the interests of the whole State of Sparta. The final branch of the Spartan government is the Appella or Demos, this is an assembly of the people, it is held only once a month. Every male that is the age of 30 or greater could participate in the Appella at any time. They would do the electing. Whenever all of the men would meet once a month they would present issues and vote on what to do to resolve these issues. The way they would vote was by shouting.
Sparta 's military did fall a couple of times. After defeating Athens in the Peloponnesian war, Sparta turned out to be a clumsy great power in Greece. Spartans butt into local politics all over the Greek world, supporting oligarchic regimes against democracies but also generally trampling on the jealously guarded local rights of the many city-states. Besides Sparta was happy to cut deals with the Persians in order to defeat Athens, which undercuts the legitimacy of Sparta 's traditional role as Guardians …show more content…
The Lacedaemonian cavalry was very weak because any good Spartan warrior would still want to be on serving as hoplites [infantrymen] ...he writes. The Thebans, by contrast, had an old cavalry tradition, and their excellent horses, this was greatly exercised in the previous wars, quickly scattered the Spartan cavalry all over the place and drove the Spartan warriors back into their phalanx, confusing its order.With all of the confusion going on in the Spartan cavalry, the slaughter was of the battle began. Cleombrotus, was fighting in the phalanx along side the other Spartans, as Spartan kings did, was killed and was carried out of the battle dying ... Other leading Spartans were soon also killed in the battle as well, writes Lendon. “The Theban general Epaminondas is said to have called out grant me one step, and we will have the