ABSTRACT

Jason was succeeded (after a bloody internecine power struggle on lines more familiar from Macedonian history) by his nephew Alexander. Xenophon was impressed by Jason (see the whole section Hell. 6. 4. 27. where he takes the Pheraian dynastic story down to the 350s), and there is more to this than mere anti-eban bias (the desire, that is, to direct the focus of attention away from Epaminondas and ebes in their day of glory). For a moment after Leuktra Jason had genuinely seemed to hold the balance between the Greek powers to the south of him, when he dissuaded the ebans from shattering what remained of the Spartan army, urging them to quit for the moment, while they were ahead of the game (6. 4. 20.).