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Why did Pelopidas and Epaminondas allow Philip II to be educated in their military strategy while he was captured in Thebes? It seems they should have known they were training their future enemy combatant, which did occur when Philip II came back and defeated Athens and Thebes.

by /u/sportsdude523 in /r/AskHistorians

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