. European history : an outline of its development. h thephilosopher Socratesin a moment of mobpassion, bitterly re-gretted afterwards. 34. The Invasion ofPersia by Cyrus theYounger. — Meantimethe Greeks had learned,through the expeditionof Cyrus the Younger,the great superiority oftheir troops to the enor-mous armies of had attemptedby the aid of a fewthousand Greeks tooverthrow his brother,Artaxerxes, and makehimself king of httle force defeatedthe great Persian army,but Cyrus was story of the marchof the Greeks and of the retreat through Armenia to the Bla
. European history : an outline of its development. h thephilosopher Socratesin a moment of mobpassion, bitterly re-gretted afterwards. 34. The Invasion ofPersia by Cyrus theYounger. — Meantimethe Greeks had learned,through the expeditionof Cyrus the Younger,the great superiority oftheir troops to the enor-mous armies of had attemptedby the aid of a fewthousand Greeks tooverthrow his brother,Artaxerxes, and makehimself king of httle force defeatedthe great Persian army,but Cyrus was story of the marchof the Greeks and of the retreat through Armenia to the Black Sea is told byXenophon, an Athenian in the army, in one of the mostinteresting of Greek books, the Anabasis. 35. A New Persian War. — Sparta was the first to attemptto profit by this lesson. She determined to make war onthe hereditary enemies of the Greeks, hoping perhaps toregain something of the popularity she was conscious oflosing through the harshness of her government. Somesuccesses were gained at first, but Persia intrigued in Greece. Plato Holm, II.,Chap. XXX. The death ofSocrates,399 The expe-dition ofCyrus theYounger,401 , I. The battleand the deathof Cyrus,XenophonsAnabasis, I. SpartaattacksPersia,399 40 The Peloponnesian War and its Results [§ 36 Rebellions inGreece. The war goes against Sparta. Peace at thedictation ofPersia,387 The fall ofSpartanpower,Holm, The death ofEpaminon-das, 362 to arouse the enemies of Sparta against her. Thebes firsttook arms, and was soon joined by Athens, and even byCorinth and Argos, so long allies of Sparta. In the war which followed, neither side gained anydecided advantage, but the balance fell on the whole againstSparta, in spite of the determined efforts of her lame kingAgesilaus. The Thebans learned the advantage in war ofcareful drilling and skilful tactics, and their ambition wasawakened to succeed Sparta as the ruling state of regained much that she had l
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