![]() ![]() The number of full-fledged citizens of Sparta dropped dramatically from several thousand during the Persian wars to just a few hundred during the reign of Kleomenes III. However, they did not withdraw troops from Greece, securing their interests here. In return for this gesture, partes kept Nabis in the possession of Argos. ![]() However, when the fate of the war began to favor the Republic, the sly Spartan changed the front again and helped 600 mercenaries from Crete a coalition led by Rome. Philip V of Macedon offered Nabis to renounce his alliance with Rome and alliance with Macedonia in exchange for obtaining Argos. The outbreak of Second Macedonian War gave lord of Sparta the hope of resuming active foreign policy. However, he had to back out of it after the Achaean offensive, commanded by Philopoemen.Įven worse, Philopoemen’s troops inflicted him the final defeat at Tegea, preventing territorial reclaimings for some time. In 205 BCE he concluded a peace treaty with Rome, but four years later he attacked the territory of Messenia, lost by Sparta in the middle of the 4th century BCE, and currently in good relations with both Macedonia and Rome. According to Polibius, Nabis gathered “a crowd of murderers, burglars, pickpockets and bandits”. After the death of the Regent Machanidasa in 207 BCE, the Spartan king Pelops was overthrown by the Nabis, who won the royal crown, referring to the origin of King Demaratus of the Eurypontid line.
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