Aegospotami

As the sun rose the Athenians drew up their vessels facing the harbour, in line of battle ready for action; but Lysander declining to come out to meet them, as the day advanced they retired again to Aegospotami.

Hellenica 2007

Then they instantly set sail again to Sestos, and, having halted long enough merely to take in stores, sailed on further to Aegospotami, a point facing Lampsacus, where the Hellespont is not quite two miles69 broad.

Hellenica 2007

Aegospotami (405 B.C.), and Leuctra (371 B.C.), for example, contemporaries thought that gods and heroes took part.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

Aegospotami (405 B.C.), and Leuctra (371 B.C.), for example, contemporaries thought that gods and heroes took part.

The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

Aegospotami led to the complete surrender of Athens and to a Spartan hegemony over Greece that proved unfavorable to Persian interests.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

It is interesting to note that this policy was not followed by the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger, whose steadfast and generous assistance to the Spartans after 407 permitted the Peloponnesian fleet to recover from successive reverses until they were finally able to inflict a decisive defeat on the Athenian navy at Aegospotami in 405.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

For Conon, after the battle of Aegospotami, resided in Cyprus; not that he consulted his own mere security, but looking for a vicissitude of affairs with no less hope than men wait for a change of wind at sea.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

This combined alliance waged the socalled Corinthian War 395-87 against Sparta, defeated her decisively at sea in 394—just ten years after Aegospotami—and ultimately forced her to abandon her attempt to liberate the Greeks of Asia.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Tydeus, Menander, and Adimantus, the new-made generals, were at that time posted at Aegospotami, with all the ships which the

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar and of the empire of the spirit, not an IMPERIUM, that went under with the Athenian fleets at Aegospotami.

Ulysses 2003