Alcamenes

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: commander · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1

During the winter, Agis sent Alcamenes, son of Sthenelaidas, from Lacedaemon to command in Euboea. When Agis deferred that operation and arranged for a revolt in Lesbos, he appointed Alcamenes governor instead. At the beginning of the next summer, the allies assigned him command of the expedition to Lesbos, after Chalcideus’s expedition to Chios and before Clearchus’s to the Hellespont.

At Spiraeum, the Athenians defeated the Peloponnesians and killed Alcamenes, their commander.

Relationship record

Life events

• Agis sent Alcamenes and Melanthus to take command in Euboea.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1 · 📍 Euboea)
  • With: Agis Sthenelaidas
  • “Agis accepted their proposals, and sent for Alcamenes, son of Sthenelaidas, and Melanthus from Lacedaemon, to take the command in Euboea.”
• Agis deferred the Euboean operation and appointed Alcamenes governor for the planned Lesbian revolt.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1)
  • With: Agis
  • “Agis was persuaded to defer acting in the matter of Euboea, and made arrangements for the revolt of the Lesbians, giving them Alcamenes, who was to have sailed to Euboea, as governor”
• The allies assigned commands for expeditions to Chios, Lesbos, and the Hellespont.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 2 · 📍 Corinth)
  • With: Agis Chalcideus Clearchus Ramphias
  • “they decided to sail first to Chios under the command of Chalcideus, who was equipping the five vessels in Laconia, then to Lesbos, under the command of Alcamenes, the same whom Agis had fixed upon, and lastly to go to the Hellespont, where the command was given to Clearchus, son of Ramphias.”
• The Athenians defeated the Peloponnesians in battle and killed their commander, Alcamenes.(Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 2 · 📍 Spiraeum)
  • “in which the Athenians disabled most of the enemy’s vessels and killed Alcamenes their commander”

Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 1

• with Agis (Agis assigned Alcamenes as governor for the Lesbians.) “giving them Alcamenes, who was to have sailed to Euboea, as governor”
• parent: Sthenelaidas “Agis accepted their proposals, and sent for Alcamenes, son of Sthenelaidas, and Melanthus from Lacedaemon, to take the command in Euboea.”

Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 2

• with Chalcideus (Both were assigned command of successive parts of the expedition.) “the allies assembled at Corinth and held a council, in which they decided to sail first to Chios under the command of Chalcideus, who was equipping the five vessels in Laconia, then to Lesbos, under the command of Alcamenes, the same whom Agis had fixed upon, and lastly to go to the Hellespont, where the command was given to Clearchus, son of Ramphias.”
• with Agis (Agis had selected Alcamenes for command.) “the same whom Agis had fixed upon”
• with Clearchus (Both were assigned command of successive parts of the expedition.) “the allies assembled at Corinth and held a council, in which they decided to sail first to Chios under the command of Chalcideus, who was equipping the five vessels in Laconia, then to Lesbos, under the command of Alcamenes, the same whom Agis had fixed upon, and lastly to go to the Hellespont, where the command was given to Clearchus, son of Ramphias.”

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