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Some scholars have wanted to make the battle in terms of
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a limited space but I think that really isn't an issue.
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This is a sort of a typical hoplite battlefield.
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So, Cleombrotus marches on Thebes,
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again, it's not Agesilaus,
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and I mean this looks like the culmination of
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Agesilaus' anti-Theban policy;
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he's not there.
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Again, the ancient writers and modern scholars wonder
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why he wasn't there.
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I'm prepared to take the simple-minded view;
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if he wasn't there, he couldn't have been there.