Xenophon's Hellenica

Libys

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: admiral of the fleet · First appears: Book 2, section 4, part 3/4

Life events

  • Libys was appointed admiral and blockaded Piraeus by sea, cutting off supplies.(Book 2, section 4, part 3/4 · 📍 Piraeus)
    • “At Sparta, Lysander, taking into account the possibility of speedily reducing the party in Piraeus by blockading them by land and sea, and so cutting them off from all supplies, supported the application, and negotiated the loan of one hundred talents to his clients, backed by the appointment of himself as harmost on land, and of his brother, Libys, as admiral of the fleet.”

Book 2, section 4, part 3/4

  • siblings with Lysander “and of his brother, Libys, as admiral of the fleet.”

Also listed in Lacedaemonian — Minor Figures

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