Four years later Thebes used her new predominance in central Greece to restore the Trachinians, who retained Heraclea until 37 1, when Jason of Pherae seized and dismantled it.
In 457 the Athenians and their allies ventured to intercept a Spartan force which was returning home from central Greece.
After visiting Central Greece and Peloponnesus, he returned by way of Sicily to Rome (end of 126).
Besides securing her Aegean possessions and her commerce by the defeat of Corinth and Aegina, her last rivals on sea, Athens acquired an extensive dominion in central Greece and for a time quite overshadowed the Spartan land-power.
The Phocian mercenaries at Thermopylae were bought off and Philip crossed into central Greece.
