It is not clear exactly when the Thebans started to think not just of ending the Spartan hegemony, but of replacing it with one of their own, but it is clear that eventually this became their aim.
Non está claro cando comezaron os tebanos a pensar non só en acabar coa hexemonía espartana, senón en substituíla coa súa propia, pero en calquera caso chegou un momento en que ese se converteu no seu obxectivo.