<P> The subject of how to reorganize the Athenian Empire as part of the Spartan Empire provoked much heated debate among Sparta's full citizens . The admiral Lysander felt that the Spartans should rebuild the Athenian empire in such a way that Sparta profited from it . Lysander tended to be too proud to take advice from others . Prior to this, Spartan law forbade the use of all precious metals by private citizens, with transactions being carried out with cumbersome iron ingots (which generally discouraged their accumulation) and all precious metals obtained by the city becoming state property . Without the Spartans' support, Lysander's innovations came into effect and brought a great deal of profit for him - on Samos, for example, festivals known as Lysandreia were organized in his honour . He was recalled to Sparta, and once there did not attend to any important matters . </P> <P> Sparta refused to see Lysander or his successors dominate . Not wanting to establish a hegemony, they decided after 403 BC not to support the directives that he had made . </P> <P> Agesilaus came to power by accident at the start of the 4th century BC . This accidental accession meant that, unlike the other Spartan kings, he had the advantage of a Spartan education . The Spartans at this date discovered a conspiracy against the laws of the city conducted by Cinadon and as a result concluded there were too many dangerous worldly elements at work in the Spartan state . </P> <P> Agesilaus employed a political dynamic that played on a feeling of pan-Hellenic sentiment and launched a successful campaign against the Persian empire . Once again, the Persian empire played both sides against each other . The Persian Court supported Sparta in the rebuilding of their navy while simultaneously funding the Athenians, who used Persian subsidies to rebuild their long walls (destroyed in 404 BC) as well as to reconstruct their fleet and win a number of victories . </P>

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