Agesandridas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 3

Agesandridas was a Spartan commander and the son of Agesander. In the unrest in Athens, Theramenes and his party had argued that the ships were sailing to the fortification; the Athenians later concluded that its demolition had been justified.

At Eretria, Agesandridas’s forces defeated the Athenian fleet sent under Thymochares, driving the Athenians back to shore. Not long afterwards, the Peloponnesians captured twenty-two Athenian ships and brought about the revolt of nearly all Euboea, except Oreus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Thymochares’s Athenian fleet was defeated by Agesandridas’s forces off Eretria.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4 · 📍 Eretria)
  • With: Thymochares
  • “The Athenians, forced to put out so poorly prepared, engaged off the harbour of Eretria, and after holding their own for some little while notwithstanding, were at length put to flight and chased to the shore.”
• The Peloponnesians took twenty-two Athenian ships and effected the revolt of nearly all Euboea.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4 · 📍 Euboea)
  • “The Peloponnesians, after taking twenty-two Athenian ships, and killing or making prisoners of the crews, set up a trophy, and not long afterwards effected the revolt of the whole of Euboea (except Oreus, which was held by the Athenians themselves), and made a general settlement of the affairs of the island.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 3

• parent: Agesander “under the command of Agesandridas, son of Agesander, a Spartan.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4

• with Theramenes (The passage connects Theramenes's prior statements to the ships' movements, not to a personal relationship.) “The people to a man now thought that it was just what Theramenes and his party had so often said, that the ships were sailing to the fortification, and concluded that they had done well to demolish it.”
• with Thymochares (Thymochares was sent to Eretria as Agesandridas's force approached.) “The Athenians, with revolution in the city, and unwilling to lose a moment in going to the relief of their most important possession (for Euboea was everything to them now that they were shut out from Attica), were compelled to put to sea in haste and with untrained crews, and sent Thymochares with some vessels to Eretria.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.