{"id":101068,"date":"2026-02-26T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101068"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:59:42","slug":"the-decline-and-fall-of-sparta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/26\/the-decline-and-fall-of-sparta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decline and Fall of Sparta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yvWpzEwdFEg?si=m890L-tppDYv7o3o\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>toldinstone<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 25 Feb 2026<\/p>\n<p>How Sparta, the most powerful Greek city-state, collapsed in only 20 years. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:38 Classical Sparta<br \/>\n1:29 Spartan politics<br \/>\n2:22 Helots<br \/>\n3:24 Population decline<br \/>\n4:37 Hubris<br \/>\n5:25 The Battle of Leuctra<br \/>\n6:42 Messenia liberated<br \/>\n7:35 Enter Macedon<br \/>\n8:08 Attempts at reform<br \/>\n9:08 Irrelevance<br \/>\n9:37 Roman Sparta<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Toldinstone Patreon:   \/ toldinstone  <\/p>\n<p>Check out my other channels, \u202a@scenicroutestothepast\u202c and \u202a@toldinstonefootnotes\u202c <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>toldinstone Published 25 Feb 2026 How Sparta, the most powerful Greek city-state, collapsed in only 20 years. 0:00 Introduction 0:38 Classical Sparta 1:29 Spartan politics 2:22 Helots 3:24 Population decline 4:37 Hubris 5:25 The Battle of Leuctra 6:42 Messenia liberated 7:35 Enter Macedon 8:08 Attempts at reform 9:08 Irrelevance 9:37 Roman Sparta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1526,7,5],"tags":[1527,732,1203,1152,605,1151,1557],"class_list":["post-101068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-history","category-military","tag-ancientgreece","tag-athens","tag-macedonia","tag-peloponnesianwar","tag-slavery","tag-sparta","tag-thebes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qi8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101069,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101068\/revisions\/101069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}