Editing Ancient Elis (section)

===Peloponnesian War and later===
In the war, Elis sided at first with [[Sparta]]. But Sparta, jealous of the increasing prosperity of its ally, availed itself of the first pretext to pick a quarrel. At the [[Battle of Mantinea (418 BC)]], the Eleans fought against the Spartans, who later took vengeance upon them by depriving them of [[Triphylia]] and the towns of the [[Acroreia]].
The Eleans made no attempt to re-establish their authority over these places until Thebes rose in importance after the [[Battle of Leuctra]] (371 BC). However, the [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadian confederacy]] came to the assistance of the Triphylians. In 366 BC, hostilities broke out between them, and though the Eleans were at first successful, they were soon overpowered; their capital very nearly fell into the hands of the enemy,<ref name="EB1911"/> and the territory of Triphylia was permanently ceded to Arcadia in 369 BC.<ref>{{cite book |title=Oxford Classical Dictionary |edition=3rd |publisher=Oxford University Press |volume=5 |year=1996}}</ref> Unable to make headway against their opponents, they applied for assistance to the Spartans, who invaded Arcadia and forced the Arcadians to recall their troops from Elis. The general result of this war was the restoration of their territory to the Eleans, who were also again invested with the right of holding the Olympic games.<ref name="EB1911"/>

During the [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonian]] supremacy in Greece they sided with the victors, but refused to fight against their countrymen. After the death of [[Alexander the Great]] in 323 BC they renounced the Macedonian alliance. At a subsequent period they joined the [[Aetolian League]]. When the whole of Greece fell to Rome, the sanctity of Olympia secured for the Eleans a certain amount of indulgence. The games still continued to attract large numbers of visitors, until they were finally ended by [[Theodosius I|Theodosius]] in 394 AD, two years before the utter destruction of the country by the [[Visigoths|Gothic]] invasion under [[Alaric I]].<ref name="EB1911"/>