Game of Thrones at the End of Ancient Greece - Part 6
6/15/20262 hr 15 min
As the stakes rise, the game of thrones in Greece continues to get bloodier. Epaminondas aims to strike directly at Spartan power and Agesilaus, but faces political enemies back at home, while Pelopidas heads north to deal with chaos of the two Alexanders of Macedon and Pherae. Athens takes the opportunity to return to their old tricks. This one includes the Spartan assassin society, new cities, an escalation of the Persian Great Satraps Revolt for Artaxerxes to deal with, and the education of the most famous Philip of the ancient world.
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First 90 secondsAziz· Host0:48
With so many fallen rulers last time, that power is in turn taken up by a new batch of leaders, many of whom have more power than any prior ruler, prior ruler in that respective country's history. That is one of the most important patterns of history that I want us to lock onto here. I want us to focus on that concept of each time a new leader enters the picture, they have the opportunity to do even more than the one prior. Not always true, of course. Nations have setbacks and falls and complete collapses, but a lot of these nations that we're dealing with are on the rise. And they're not just on the rise in terms of power, they're on the rise in terms of development, going from