Since decisions were made by majority vote, this could mean that Sparta's policy could change quickly, when the vote of one ephor changed ( e . g . in 403 BC when Pausanias convinced three of the ephors to send an army to Attica ).
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The next year, when Lysander's duty as ephor had finished, Leonidas returned to Sparta and re-installed himself on the throne, with the intention of sentencing his son-in-law to death, but Chilonis prayed her father to commute the penalty to exile and Leonidas satisfied his daughter's wish.
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In one case, an ephor dreamed that some of his colleagues'chairs were removed from the agora, and that a voice called out " this is better for Sparta "; inspired by this, King Agis, several ephors brought the people into revolt with oracles from Pasipha?s shrine promising remission of debts and redistribution of land.
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His great-grandsons were Georgantas Skouzes ( 1776 1822 ), a member of the " Filiki Etaireia " and " ephor " of Athens during the initial stages of the Greek Revolution, and Panagis Skouzes ( 1777 1847 ), who became one of the greatest landowners before the Revolution and played an active role during the latter.
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The people listed in five pages of thank-yous _ enough to populate a small medieval town _ include museum directors and culture ministers as well as the more esoteric entries of Charalambos Bakirtzis, the Ephor of the 12th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities in Salonika, and Archbishop Henryk Muszynski of Gniezno, Poland, near the outer limits of the show's focus, which is the Byzantine Empire's Second Golden Age, from 843 to 1261.
