Sphodrias (Greek: Σφοδρίας) (d. 371 BC) was a Spartan general during the Spartan Hegemony over Greece. As governor of Thespiai in 378 BC, he made an unsuccessful attack against Athens without any order from Sparta. He was put on trial for this act, but unexpectedly acquitted, thanks to the support of the two Spartan kings, Cleombrotus I and Agesilaus II. This acquittal greatly upset Athens which rapidly concluded an alliance with Thebes against Sparta as a result.
Sphodrias later died at the battle of Leuctra against Thebes in 371 BC.
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...
broke, and Sphodrias had to content himself with plundering the Attic countryside while retreating. According to varying accounts, Sphodrias had either...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
Aristophanes for his cowardice Cleonymus (d. 371 BCE), son of great beauty of Sphodrias and aḯtas ("beloved") of King Archidamus III of Sparta Cleonymus of Sparta...
and the next year, after the aborted invasion of Attica by the Spartan Sphodrias, he was elected strategos along with Timotheos and Chabrias. In 375, during...
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