By contrast, the female relatives of the Spartans who died heroically in the Battle of Leuctra were said to have walked around in public looking happy.
32.
Xenophon, who idolized Sparta and its king, Agesilaus, avoids mentioning Epaminondas wherever possible and does not even note his presence at the Battle of Leuctra.
33.
Leuctra established Theban independence from Spartan rule and laid the groundwork for the expansion of Theban power, but possibly also for Philip II's eventual victory.
34.
Epaminondas deployed tactics similar to those at Leuctra, and again the Thebans, positioned on the left, routed the Spartans, and thereby won the battle.
35.
It was only when the Thebans, under Epaminondas increased the depth of a part of their formation at the Battle of Leuctra that the Spartan phalanx broke.
36.
Sparta's supremacy was broken following the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BCE . and was finally absorbed by the Achaean League in the 2nd century BC.
37.
Furthermore, with the loss of men at Leuctra and other battles, the Spartans were not in a strong position to reassert their dominance over their erstwhile allies.
38.
His later work " Archidamus " mention Leuctra briefly, and only to criticize Thebans as being incompetent and incapable of capitalizing on their rise to power.
39.
The Spartan hegemony would last another 16 years, until, at the Battle of Leuctra ( 371 ) the Spartans were decisively defeated by the Theban general Epaminondas.
40.
The fourth and final settlement came about in 1675, that of the " Mainotti ", so called because they came from Laconia and Maina, the ancient Leuctra.
