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    Overcoming the Spartan Phalanx : The Evolution of Greek Battlefield Tactics, 394 BC-371 BC

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    Hasapis, Constantinos
    Abstract
    The objective of this thesis is to examine the changes in Greek battlefield tactics in the early fourth century as a response to overthrowing what was widely considered by most of Greece tyranny on the part of Sparta. Sparta's hegemony was based on military might, namely her mastery of phalanx warfare. Therefore the key to dismantling Lacedaemonia's overlordship was to defeat her armies on the battlefield.    This thesis will argue that new battle tactics were tried and although there were varying degrees of success, the final victory at Leuctra over the Spartans was due mainly to the use of another phalanx. However, the Theban phalanx was not a merely a copy of Sparta's. New formations, tactics, and battlefield concepts were applied and used successfully when wedded together. Sparta's prospects of maintaining her position of dominance were increasingly bleak. Sparta's phalanx had became more versatile and mobile after the end of the Peloponnesian War but her increasing economic and demographic problems, compounded by outside commitments resulting in imperial overstretch, strained her resources. The additional burden of internal security requirements caused by the need to hold down a massive helot population led to a static position in the face of a dynamic enemy with no such constraints.  
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3854
    Subject
     Ancient history; European history; Military history; Epaminondas; Hoplite; Phalanx; Sacred band; Sparta (Extinct city); Thebes (Greece) 
    Date
    2012
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    Hasapis, Constantinos. (January 2012). Overcoming the Spartan Phalanx : The Evolution of Greek Battlefield Tactics, 394 BC-371 BC (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3854.)

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    Hasapis, Constantinos. Overcoming the Spartan Phalanx : The Evolution of Greek Battlefield Tactics, 394 BC-371 BC. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2012. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/3854. August 15, 2022.
    Chicago:
    Hasapis, Constantinos, “Overcoming the Spartan Phalanx : The Evolution of Greek Battlefield Tactics, 394 BC-371 BC” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2012).
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    Hasapis, Constantinos. Overcoming the Spartan Phalanx : The Evolution of Greek Battlefield Tactics, 394 BC-371 BC [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2012.
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