Athens's New Ephors Are Supposed to Implement Their New Constitution

A year after the spartan fleet's disastrous annihilation at arganusi, lysander preferred to cut to the chase in negotiations. So was the sort of guy who didn't like to waste time, he sailed back to athens with a huge fleet. The new ephors send a message to lysander, on samos, we you to help us break the political stale mate and finish carrying out the plan. But then the democrats in athens were refusing to make any changes to the constitution. And that wasn't the only thing deadlocked.