Battle of Sellasia: Encyclopedia II - Battle of Sellasia - Antigonus Doson and the Hellenic League with Cleomenes III

Battle of Sellasia - Antigonus Doson and the Hellenic League with Cleomenes III

The Battle of Sellasia was a war that took place in 222 BC between the armies of Antigonus III Doson, King of Macedonia and Cleomenes III, King of Sparta, the Spartan Forces were massacred and Cleomenes fled to Egypt.

Arrived at capacity in 235 BC after the death of Leonidas II, son of King Cleomenes III undertook an ambitious political restoration of Sparta's power by returning to a legendary political tradition of Lycurgus.

King of Macedonia, Antigonus Doson responded and regained the influence lost from the Peloponnese since almost two decades. In 224 with the Achaeans, Boeotians, Thessalians and the Acarnanians, an alliance. Antigonus drove out the Spartans from Argos and took Orchomenos and Mantineia. In 223, Cleomenes attacked and invaded Megalopolis, thus returning to military practices which had disappeared from Greece since the beginning of the 3rd century BC.

In 222 BC, Ptolemy ceased financial support from Cleomenes.

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