This article analyzes the last years of Nabis`s life, whose assassination coincided with the end of the independent existence of the Spartan polis. Based on the study of literary evidences about the international situation in the region, as well as the tyrant's internal and external policies, the author comes to the conclusion that in spite of the fact that it was the Achaeans who benefited from the removal of Nabis, the murder of the king should not be regarded as removal of a leader who was dangerous for Rome, nor as elimination of a source of permanent anxiety in the Peloponnese, but as a consequence of his reform activity.
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