A mere three decades after the end of the Peloponnesian War, a Theban army under Epaminondas crushed the Spartans, but Greece was so weakened that it lay at the mercy of Persia and the Macedonians.

• 伯罗奔尼撒战争结束后短短三十年，埃帕米农达领导的一支底比斯军队横扫了斯巴达人，希腊已经变得如此的削弱，它只能受波斯和马其顿人的支配。