In 448 BCE, the baby Alexios was sentenced to death after the acting Pythia Praxithea of the Sanctuary of Delphi foretold that Leonidas' younger grandchild would bring ruin to Sparta, as per the order of the Cult of Kosmos. The Greeks were nonetheless victorious in the war, and in the aftermath, Athens emerged as the hegemonic power as leader of the Delian League. In 480 BCE, Sparta was led by King Leonidas who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae during the Second Persian invasion of Greece.
In most traditions, Sparta was formed by the surrounding villages of Pitana, Mesoa, Limnai and Kynosoura, which were settlements established by Dorian Greeks who migrated to Lakonia during the Greek Dark Ages. 2 Structure of Classical Spartan society.
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