However, this depends on when exactly the Spartans held their festival and it is possible that the Spartan calendar was one month ahead of that of Athens.

However, Chris Burke intentionally hosts This Spartan Life in these unpredictable conditions, which are fundamental to the show.

However, pankration was more than just an event in the athletic competitions of the ancient Greek world ; it was also part of the arsenal of Greek soldiers – including the famous Spartan hoplites and Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx.

However, this episode may be seen as the beginning of the Spartan mistrust of Themistocles which would return to haunt him.

However, Clearchus, a Spartan general, convinced the Greeks to continue with the expedition.

However, Lysander ceased to be the Spartan navarch after this victory and, in accordance with the Spartan law, was replaced by Callicratidas.

However, Spartan law did not allow the reappointment of a previous navarch, so Aracus was appointed as navarch with Lysander as his deputy.

However, while Alcibiades is away seeking supplies, the Athenian squadron is placed under the command of Antiochus, his helmsman, who is routed by the Spartan fleet ( with the help of the Persians under Cyrus ) in the Battle of Notium ( or Ephesus ).

However, Spartan kings, who served as the city-state's dual military and religious leaders, came from two families.

However when, later in the year, Ambracia invades Acarnania, and the Acarnanians seek help from Demosthenes, who is patrolling the Ionian Sea coast with twenty Athenian ships, he reaches the Athenian naval base in the Gulf of Corinth at Naupactus and secures it just in time to defend it against a large Spartan army from Delphi under Eurylochus which has come to assist the Ambraciots.

However, the only statement in support of this idea comes from Sosibius, a Spartan historian from the 2nd.

However, at the Battle of Leuctra, the Theban generals, Epaminondas and Pelopidas, win a decisive victory over the Spartans under the other Spartan king, Cleombrotus I ( who is killed in the battle ).

However, the Thebans refused to meet the Spartan army in battle, instead building a trench and stockade outside Thebes, which they occupied, preventing the Spartans advancing on the city.

However, with the defeat at Leuctra, the Peloponnesian allies were less inclined to bow to Spartan demands.

However, their Thessalian allies under Jason of Pherae dissuaded them from shattering what remained of the Spartan army.

However, the Spartan king Archidamus was alerted to this move by an informant, probably a Cretan runner, and Epaminondas arrived to find the city well-defended.

However, at the height of the battle, Epaminondas was mortally wounded by a Spartan, and died shortly thereafter.

However his Sparta wasn't that Spartan.

However, despite Aristagoras's entreaties, the Spartan king Cleomenes I turned down the offer to lead the Greeks against the Persians.

However, comparing them with the Spartan elite unit Hippeis () and the Athenian epheboi ( ἔφηβοι ) recruits, DeVoto estimates that trainees were inducted as full members to the Sacred Band at the ages of 20 to 21, whereupon they were given a full set of armor by their erastai.

However, they only reached as far as the shrine of Apollo of Tegyra before encountering the returning Spartan forces from Locris.

However, only about 700 hoplites of the Spartan army were composed of spartiates ( Spartan citizens ), the rest were conscripted troops from Spartan subject states ( the perioeci ) forced to fight.

However, the Game Gear was backed up by significantly more popular titles and consequently the market became dominated by Nintendo followed by Sega in a distant second and the Lynx in third.

However, because fiat money is backed by government guarantee of a certain amount of goods and services, where the value of this is in turn determined by free market currency exchange rates, similar to the case for the international market exchange values which determines the value of metals which back commodity money, in practice there is very little economic difference between the two types of money ( types of currencies ).

However, William II of England backed Máel Coluim's son by his first marriage, Donnchad, as a pretender to the throne and he seized power.

However, KHAD has continued to operate after the fall of the Soviet backed government in 1992 and acted as the intelligence arm of the United Front or " Northern Alliance " during the Civil war in Afghanistan ( 1996 – 2001 ).

However, he backed down with his stance against the unions following a backlash by the militant miners ' union, which saw many of his own MPs turn against him.

However, the traditional Labour supporting Daily Mirror had backed Kinnock in the 1987 election and again in 1992.

However, very little of Feltham's story is backed up by contemporary evidence.

However, he backed out at the last moment, much to the ire of Lee, Lifeson and Peart.

However, this had proven to completely backfire both on Iraq and on the part of the Arab states, for Khomeini was widely perceived as a hero for managing to defend Iran and maintain the war with little foreign support against the heavily backed Iraq and only managed to boost Islamic radicalism not only within the Arab states, but within Iraq itself, creating new tensions between the Sunni Ba ' ath Party and the majority Shiite population.

However, the other naval powers, including Corinth and Aegina refused to give command to the Athenians, and Themistocles pragmatically backed down.

However, Wu later backed off from this position, stating that:

However, Mussolini, the Italian prime minister, intervened and Ferrari backed down.

However, the party machinery almost uniformly backed Landon, a wealthy businessman and centrist, who won primaries in Massachusetts and New Jersey and dominated in the caucuses and at state party conventions.

However, Montreal's mayor, Sarto Fournier, backed the proposal, allowing Canada to make a bid to the Bureau International des Expositions ( BIE ).

However, Peter's original partner backed out, and Peter was forced to look for an alternative.

However, the 802. 14 working group was disbanded when North American multi system operators ( MSOs ) instead backed the then-fledgling DOCSIS 1. 0 specification, which generally used best efforts service and was IP-based ( with extension codepoints to support ATM for QoS in the future ).

However, the double bowline may untie during long climbs if not properly backed up, so most climbers prefer the figure eight follow-through.

However, the 76ers backed up Malone's boast.

However, Iwerks left the Disney studio in 1930 to form his own company, which was financially backed by Celebrity Pictures owner Pat Powers.

However, although backed by then transport minister Barbara Castle, the need to build a number of motorway bridges and re-routing of the A590 road from Haverthwaite via Greenodd to Plumpton Junction, meant that the complete vision was unsuccessful.

However, this claim was never backed up by any kind of evidence and was generally believed, as it is today, to be purely a publicity stunt.

However, a legal challenge, backed by the Liberal opposition and business interests generally, was successful and in December 1945, the High Court ruled that the Commonwealth did not have the power to prevent the issue of airline licenses to private companies.

However, the Russian monarchist movement never backed Ms. Anderson, nor did she ever meet with the Dowager Empress, played by Hayes.

However, he still hoped to gain the coveted prize by diplomacy, backed by the veiled threat of an armed neutrality.

However before everything was confirmed and signed Ferdinand II died and Ferdinand III backed from giving the Silesian duchy to the son of Władysław.