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 ten years of bloody warfare conducted by Albornoz accomplished very little to secure the pacification of Italy for now four mercenary companies roved through Italy spreading further bloodshed and strife.

However, it is most likely that these were individual mercenary bands, not a Hunnish kingdom.

However, almost all high medieval armies in Europe were composed of a great deal of paid core troops, and there was a large mercenary market in Europe from at least the early 12th century.

However, the mercenary shinobi were unwilling to take commands.

However, the mercenary leaders reject the efforts of Roman mediators.

However, during the funeral procession, a member of Henry's household was seized by his mercenary captains for debts the late king had owed them.

However, Somerset also had several hundred German mercenary arquebusiers, a large and well-appointed artillery train, and 6, 000 cavalry, including a contingent of Italian mounted arquebusiers under Don Pedro de Gamboa.

However, this was essentially a ploy by which to create a mercenary army of unemployed English soldiers using readily available cheap war surplus.

However, Alex Hayden soon emerged in New York with one goal in mind — to be the best mercenary alive.

" However, lacking in time to train pilots for the new fighters, he summons the elite mercenary team Star Fox to defeat Andross.

However, the team had problems from the beginning ; Jemm was only on the team because Luthor was manipulating his mind with the ' Philosopher's Stone '— later revealed to be the Worloggog —, and Mirror Master later defected from the group when Batman offered to pay the mercenary double what Luthor was offering him.

However, with little money to his name -- for he had used his own funds to build up the Athenian fleet -- he left Athens and took service with the king of Persia as a mercenary.

However, many mercenary peltasts were probably recruited in Greece.

However, delays by the Carthaginian government, and a belief that the mercenaries could be convinced to settle for less than their agreed wages, resulted in the eventual gathering of most of the mercenary armies near Carthage.

However the attack was beaten off by a mercenary Visigothic army.

However, after Graziani bribed some magnates, units of private troops begun to flee and some mercenary cavalry panicked and also ran.

However, Meier Link hires the Mutant Barbarois ; a group of lethal mercenary body guards.

However, the disguise is rendered ineffectual should the enemy spot the mercenary entering the vehicle, should the player exit the vehicle or if the player engages in inappropriate behavior ( such as attacking enemy troops ).

However, they are tailed by former Coil agent Overlord, now a freelance mercenary for the Jugglers, who fatally injures Scanner, and locked the Joes in a bomb shelter until federal agents could arrive.

However, Brienne and Jaime are captured by the Brave Companions, a mercenary company in service to Roose Bolton.

However, their concern to retain these rights may not have been entirely rooted in their desire to help choose the borough's MPs ; a vote in Great Grimsby was a valuable commodity in a more mercenary sense, and the contemporary polemicist Oldfield considered that " This borough stands second to none in the history of corruption.

However, he is also the leader of Black Scissors, a mercenary black market group who has been contracted by Kurokawa's old police captain to kill Kurokawa ( mostly because Kurokawa is holding a DVD with embarrassing pictures about the captain in order to obtain ammunition ).

However, the facility is guarded by Ghez Hokan, a fearsome Mandalorian mercenary who shows little mercy to his enemies or friends, and commands a small army of militia, Trandoshan slavers, and droids.