Gorgopas

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: vice-admiral and governor of Aegina · First appears: Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

Hierax left twelve ships at Aegina under Gorgopas, installing him as the island’s governor. His blockade led Athens to recall its garrison after four months there. Antalcidas later collected Gorgopas’s ships, then sent him back to Aegina with all twelve while appointing Nicolochus to command the rest of the fleet.

Returning from Ephesus, Gorgopas encountered Eunomus and avoided an immediate battle by taking shelter at Aegina. At Cape Zoster, he ambushed Eunomus’s squadron, captured four triremes and towed them back toward the island. At break of day, Chabrias’s ambush defeated Gorgopas’s relief force, killing Gorgopas and the accompanying Lacedaemonians.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hierax left twelve vessels in Aegina under Gorgopas, installed as governor of the island.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • With: Hierax
  • “He left behind him twelve vessels in Aegina under his vice-admiral Gorgopas, who was now installed as governor of that island.”
• Gorgopas's blockade prompted Athens to recall its garrison from Aegina.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • “In consequence of this chance the Athenian troops inside the fortres were more blockaded than the Aeginetans themselves, so much so that a vote was passed by the Athenian assembly, in obedience to which a large fleet was manned, and the garrison, after four months' sojourn in Aegina, were brought back.”
• Antalcidas collected Gorgopas's ships, then sent him back to Aegina and appointed Nicolochus to command the remaining fleet.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • With: Antalcidas Nicolochus
  • “Accordingly Antalcidas, after visiting Aegina in order to pick up the vessels under Gorgopas, set sail for Ephesus. At this point he sent back Gorgopas with his twelve ships to Aegina, and appointed his vice-admiral Nicolochus to command the remainder of the fleet.”
• Gorgopas ambushed Eunomus's squadron, captured four triremes, and sailed back toward Aegina with them.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Cape Zoster)
  • With: Eunomus
  • “The engagement was fought by the light of the moon, and Gorgopas captured four triremes, which he tied astern, and so set sail with his prizes in tow towards Aegina.”
• Chabrias's ambush defeated Gorgopas's relief force, killing Gorgopas and the accompanying Lacedaemonians.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • With: Chabrias Demaenetus
  • “At their fall the rest of course turned and fled.”
• The battle killed 150 Aeginetans and 200 foreign auxiliaries, metics, and sailors.(Book 5, section 1, part 1/3 · 📍 Aegina)
  • With: Chabrias Demaenetus
  • “One hundred and fifty Aeginetans were numbered among the slain, while the loss incurred by the foreigners, metics, and sailors who had joined the relief party, reached a total of two hundred.”

Book 5, section 1, part 1/3

• with Hierax (Gorgopas served as Hierax's vice-admiral and was left in command at Aegina.) “He left behind him twelve vessels in Aegina under his vice-admiral Gorgopas, who was now installed as governor of that island.”
• with Antalcidas (Antalcidas sent Gorgopas back to Aegina with his ships.) “Accordingly Antalcidas, after visiting Aegina in order to pick up the vessels under Gorgopas, set sail for Ephesus. At this point he sent back Gorgopas with his twelve ships to Aegina, and appointed his vice-admiral Nicolochus to command the remainder of the fleet.”
• enemies with Eunomus (Their forces later fought at Cape Zoster.) “Meanwhile Gorgopas, returning from Ephesus, fell in with the Athenian admiral Eunomus, and, shunning an encounter at the moment, sought shelter in Aegina, which he reached a little before sunset;”
• enemies with Chabrias (Gorgopas fell in the fighting against the relief party led by Chabrias.) “At their fall the rest of course turned and fled. One hundred and fifty Aeginetans were numbered among the slain, while the loss incurred by the foreigners, metics, and sailors who had joined the relief party, reached a total of two hundred.”
• with Hierax (Hierax left Gorgopas in command as vice-admiral and governor.) “He left behind him twelve vessels in Aegina under his vice-admiral Gorgopas, who was now installed as governor of that island.”

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