
After the meeting, Brasidas informed Kassandra that he had a lead on a Cultist in Arkadia. Archidamos tasked her to conquer Boeotia while Pausanias demanded her to escort the champion Testikles to Elis and assured the victory of Sparta during the Olympic Games. As Archidamos was furious against Myrrine and Kassandra after what happened on Mount Taygetos, Pausanias proposed that the misthios proved her loyalty. After that, Kassandra and her mother met the Kings Archidamos and Pausanias. As Kassandra wanted to see the Kings Brasidas advised her to deal with the Helots revolt in Sparta to be sure that the rulers will listen her. Kassandra's new ally Brasidas informed them that the city claimed it after Nikolaos' disappearance. Īround 428 BCE, Kassandra - now an adult and accomplished misthios - returned to Sparta after having found her mother. During this period of time, Sparta was jointly ruled by Archidamos of the Eurypontid dynasty and Pausanias of the Agiad dynasty. Open conflict erupted in 431 BCE with the Peloponnesian War. Īrchidamos and Pausanias, the two kings of Spartaĭuring this period, Sparta and Athens became archenemies, and to counter the Delian League, the former established an alliance of its own known as the Peloponnesian League.


However, both children survived and became fierce warriors. Nikolaos ended up causing her to fall from the top of Mount Taygetos. Kassandra attempted to save her brother and inadvertently pushed both the priest and Alexios off the cliff to their apparent deaths and was sentenced to death for murder. In 448 BCE, the baby Alexios was sentenced to death after the acting Pythia Praxithea of the Sanctuary of Delphi foretold that Leonidas' younger grandchild would bring ruin to Sparta, as per the order of the Cult of Kosmos. The Greeks were nonetheless victorious in the war, and in the aftermath, Athens emerged as the hegemonic power as leader of the Delian League. In 480 BCE, Sparta was led by King Leonidas who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae during the Second Persian invasion of Greece. In most traditions, Sparta was formed by the surrounding villages of Pitana, Mesoa, Limnai and Kynosoura, which were settlements established by Dorian Greeks who migrated to Lakonia during the Greek Dark Ages. 2 Structure of Classical Spartan society.
