The Argives have now recovered from the…

The Argives have now recovered from the defeat at Sepeia in 494, and the temporarily exiled descendants of the casualties of Sepeia, the “sons of the slain” as Herodotus calls them, a naturally anti-Spartan group, are now back in control (after ousting the slaves).

Argos is on record as fighting a battle in perhaps the 470s, together with Arcadian Tegea, against Sparta, which also must cope with “all the Arcadians except the Mantineans” at a strictly undatable battle of Dipaieis.