Laconism in the Hellenistic Age

The great figures of the fourth century continued to a remarkable extent to dominate Greek intellectual history, whether in rhetoric, historiography, or political theory. One proof of this is the astonishing persistence of interest in Sparta; for the place itself, deprived of territory by Philip and defeated again under Alexander, was henceforth of no importance beyond the Peloponnese.

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