When Pyrrhus of Epirus attacked Sparta, the former Queen Archidamia led the Spartan women in a crucial support role. They would soon break his power for good.
When Pyrrhus of Epirus attacked Sparta, the former Queen Archidamia led the Spartan women in a crucial support role. They would soon break his power for good.
Just thought I should say, before you get to background, it says the latter got sent packing, which in the context of the sentence, would be the spartan women. That might want to be changed to former, when referring to Pyrrhus.
Plutarch makes no mention of it directly, but since the Spartan women were at this point behind the fighting line (“shrieking and running about,” he says), they must surely have participated in the opposition of this “with all their force.”
Given the way this is worded, it sounds more like they're just running away. Also, not sure why we're taking Plutarch as an authority, given he's not exactly the most reliable of sources.