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Spartan general who wins by offering helots freedom, thereby threatening Spartan social order.
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Brasidas
Spartan general who wins by offering helots freedom, thereby threatening Spartan social order.
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Brasidas' successful strategy threatens Sparta because freeing helots to win wars changes the social order Sparta is trying to preserve.
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Jiang speculates that Cleon and Brasidas may have been assassinated during battle because both threatened the internal social structures of their own cities more than enemy victory did.
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"...Spar um what Sparta does is it picks a new general Brasidas and says to Brasidas listen we're losing the war what can we..."
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"...wars. Okay? So what ultimately happens is even though Cleon and Brasidas have both proposed strategies that allow Athens and Sparta to win the..."
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Greek history begins with geography, but it ends here as a theory of abundance, blocked status, and pointless war: when the line stops moving, the young do not overthrow the old order directly.
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