query: occupation phoebidas
supports: Phoebidas ( Greek :  ) was a Spartan general who , in 382 BC , seized the Theban acropolis , thus giving Sparta control over Thebes . To punish his unauthorized action , Phoebidas was relieved of command . Nevertheless , the Spartans continued to hold Thebes . The Spartan king Agesilaus argued against punishing Phoebidas , on the grounds that his actions had benefitted Sparta , arguing out that was the only standard by which he should be judged . In 378 BC , Phoebidas was killed by Theban cavalry under the command of the Theban general Gorgidas , while serving as the harmost of Thespiae . Several years later , Phoebidas 's actions appear to have been the model for a similar action by another general , Sphodrias , who attempted to seize Piraeus , the port of Athens . A city-state is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories. Historically, this included cities such as Rome, Athens, Carthage, and the Italian city-states during the Renaissancebut today only a handful of sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which are city-states. A great deal of consensus exists that the term properly applies to Singapore, Monaco, and Vatican City. In Greek mythology, Eurotas was a king of Laconia, the son of King Myles and grandson of Lelex, eponymous ancestor of the Leleges. He had no male heir, but he did have a daughter Sparta and wife Clete. Eurotas bequeathed the kingdom to Lacedaemon, the son of Taygete, after whom Mount Taygetus is named, and Zeus, according to Pausanias. Lacedaemon married Sparta and renamed the state after his wife. Sparta (Doric Greek: ; Attic Greek: ) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.
candidates: king military sovereign
answer: military