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Cleomenes does not destroy Argos, however, realizing …

Years: 494BCE - 494BCE

Cleomenes does not destroy Argos, however, realizing that dislike of the Argives is one of the factors that keeps Sparta's Peloponnesian allies loyal.

Argos is left to the control of a group described as “slaves” (perhaps really members of surrounding subject communities, rather than literal slaves).