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Thebes against Sparta as a result.
Sphodrias later died at the
battle of
Leuctra against Thebes in 371 BC.
Sphodrias was a
Spartan officer from the circle...
-
gates of
Piraeus were no
longer fortified,
Sphodrias was
driven off
before Piraeus. Back in Sparta,
Sphodrias was put on
trial for the
failed attack, but...
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Corinthian War of 395–387 BC. In 378, the
attempt of the
Spartan commander Sphodrias to
capture Piraeus by
surprise triggered Athens to
establish the Second...
-
invasion of Piraeus, an
Athenian port in Attica, by the
Spartan general Sphodrias in
winter of 378 BC.
Diodorus Siculus claims that the
invasion was ordered...
- broke, and
Sphodrias had to
content himself with
plundering the
Attic countryside while retreating.
According to
varying accounts,
Sphodrias had either...
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eispnelas (εἰσπνήλας, inspirer, or
pederastic lover) of Cleonymus, son of
Sphodrias. He
interceded with his own
father to
spare his aites's (ἀΐτας, lover)...
-
appear to have been the
model for a
similar action by
another general,
Sphodrias, who
attempted to
seize Piraeus, the port of Athens. Fine, John V.A. The...
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Hegemon Elis Phlegon, apud Photius,
Bibliotheca 97 177 § 72 BC
Pankration Sphodrias Sikyon Phlegon, apud Photius,
Bibliotheca 97 177 § 72 BC
Stadion Hekatomnos...
- aims.
Early on, a
botched attack on
Piraeus by the
Spartan commander Sphodrias undermined Sparta's
position by
driving Athens into the arms of Thebes...
-
because of the
affection of his son
Archidamus for Cleonymus, he
saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus' father, from
execution for his
incursion into
Piraeus and...
