The xiphos usually has a blade around long, however those used by the Spartans were often only 12 – 18 inches long.

Demosthenes, however, outmanoeuvred the Spartans in the Battle of Pylos in 425 BC and trapped a group of Spartan soldiers on Sphacteria as he waited for them to surrender.

Furthermore, after the treason and disgrace of the Spartan general Pausanias, the Spartans tried to implicate Themistocles in the plot ; he was, however, acquitted of these charges.

They are, however, narrowly defeated by the Spartans in the Battle of Piraeus.

The Spartans, however, soon afterwards did away with them, and no one ever knew how each of them perished.

The Spartans hold out, however the pro-consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus arrives with 4, 000 extra men.

In 407 BC, he was in command of a fleet sent to besiege Phocaea ; this siege had to be lifted, however, after the Spartans under Lysander defeated the main Athenian fleet at Notium.

According to the Spartans, however, the image of Artemis was transported by them to Laconia, where the goddess was worshipped as Artemis Orthia.

Those same Spartans, however, had been at the center of resistance to the Persian invasions of the 5th century BC, and their absence was sorely felt at Chaeronea ; the endless warfare in which Epaminondas played a central role weakened the cities of Greece until they could no longer hold their own against their neighbors to the north.

Xenophon insists that Spartans initially were able to hold back the gigantic mass of the Thebans ; however they were eventually overwhelmed.

Sparta intervened under Agesilaus, however, and with aid from Thessaly, Macedonia, and the Molossians themselves, the Spartans expelled the Illyrians.

The Spartans, however, needed an interpreter to clear up any misunderstandings of double meanings which might lie concealed beneath the surface of complicated words.

The Athenians held off the Spartans for a day and a half, however, causing the Spartans to cease their attempts to storm Pylos and instead settled in for a siege.

It is in the ecclesia however that Dikaiopolis meets Amphitheus, a man who claims to be the immortal great-great-grandson of Triptolemus and Demeter and who claims moreover that he can obtain peace with the Spartans privately.

He and his household however are immediately set upon by a mob of aged farmers and charcoal burners from Acharnae-tough veterans of past wars who hate the Spartans for destroying their farms and who hate anyone who talks peace.

The Spartans, however, having been again defeated in battle, were unable to replace their losses.

The winning combination was to be the Spartans in blue and white, however alumni of the original Framingham High raised a protest that the town should revert to the original mascot and colors which happened to be used by Framingham South.

By this time, however, the Spartans were increasingly coming under the influence of the pro-war leader Brasidas, a daring general who encouraged and supported revolts among Athenian client states despite the armistice.

The Elites however are forced with planning the attacks against the Spartans, and preventing the religious hierarchy ( the Cleric ) from seizing power.

The Spartans however recaptured the city in 189 BC.

Hibernians FC went on to win the Maltese league championship in 1981 and 1982, Rabat Ajax ( formed 1930 ) won in 1985, and 1986, however the real surprise came from one of Malta's oldest clubs, Ħamrun Spartans who won the league three times in 1983, 1987 and 1988, and won a five league trophies.

In Week Eight, however, the Spartans played two games on the weekend of October 31.

The Eleians, however, refused to recognize the Olympiad or to include it in the register, and shortly afterwards, with the aid of the Spartans, who are said to have looked upon Pheidon as having ousted them from the headship of Greece, defeated Pheidon and were reinstated in the possession of Pisatis and their former privileges.

Amyntas thus concluded a treaty with the Spartans, who assisted him to reduce Olynthus ( 379 ).

The Spartans were of the view that, with the liberation of mainland Greece, and the Greek cities of Asia Minor, the war's purpose had already been reached.

This signaled a complete change in Athenian foreign policy, neglecting the alliance with the Spartans and instead allying with her enemies, Argos and Thessaly.

Athens's empire was not very stable, and only 27 years of war with the Spartans, aided by the Persians and internal strife, were able to defeat it.

He served under Bob Bronzan as a graduate assistant coach on the Spartans football coaching staff and graduated with a master's degree in physical education from San Jose State in 1959.

Non-league sides include Spartans and Edinburgh City, who play in the East of Scotland League along with Civil Service Strollers F. C., Lothian Thistle F. C., Edinburgh University A. F. C., Leith Athletic F. C., Tynecastle F. C., Craigroyston F. C.

Hoplite warfare has been portrayed ( with varying accuracy ) in several films including Troy, The 300 Spartans and 300.

According to Thucydides, the Spartans acted in this way out of fear that the Athenians would switch sides and support the helots ; the offended Athenians repudiated their alliance with Sparta.

The Spartans, whose intervention would have been the trigger for a massive war to determine the fate of the empire, called a congress of their allies to discuss the possibility of war with Athens.

At the request of the Corinthians, the Spartans summoned members of the Peloponnesian League to Sparta in 432 BC, especially those who had grievances with Athens to make their complaints to the Spartan assembly.

The Syracusans sent their fleet to the Peloponnesians, and the Persians decided to support the Spartans with money and ships.

The Spartans sent ambassadors to Admetus, threatening that the whole of Greece would go to war with the Molossians unless they surrendered Themistocles.

* Aristagoras seeks help with the revolt against the Persians from Cleomenes I, the King of Sparta, but the Spartans are unwilling to respond.

The Spartans discover his plans and arrange with Pharnabazus to have him assassinated.

* The civil war in Corcyra, in which the Athenians and the Spartans have interfered ineffectually, results in a victory of the democrats ( who support an alliance with Athens ) over the oligarchs.

An anecdote has it that when Philip II sent a message to Sparta saying " If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta ", the Spartans responded with the single, terse reply: " If.

Thus, upon the conquest of Persia, Alexander the Great sent to Athens 300 suits of Persian armour with the following inscription Alexander, son of Philip, and all the Greeks except the Spartans, give these offerings taken from the foreigners who live in Asia added.

" On the other hand, the Spartans trusted their helots enough in 479 BC to take a force of 35, 000 with them to Plataea, something they could not have risked if they feared the helots would attack them or run away.

Plutarch also states that Spartans treated the Helots " harshly and cruelly ": they compelled them to drink pure wine ( which was considered dangerous – wine usually being cut with water ) "... and to lead them in that condition into their public halls, that the children might see what a sight a drunken man is ; they made them to dance low dances, and sing ridiculous songs ..." during syssitia ( obligatory banquets ).

Thucydides reports that when a Spartan man went to war, his wife ( or another woman of some significance ) would customarily present him with his shield and say: " With this, or upon this " ( Ἢ τὰν ἢ ἐπὶ τᾶς, Èi tàn èi èpì tàs ), meaning that true Spartans could only return to Sparta either victorious ( with their shield in hand ) or dead ( carried upon it ).

However, the Spartans decided that Alcibiades must be removed and Lysander, with the help of Pharnabazus, arranged the assassination of Alcibiades.

In the battle, the Spartans narrowly defeated the exiles, with both sides suffering large numbers of casualties.