Agias

Family: Spartan · Role: seer · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 11

Agias was the son of Agelochus, son of Tisamenus. At Ægos-potamoi, he was said to have foretold that Lysander would capture all but ten Athenian triremes; the ten escaped to Cyprus, while the Lacedæmonians took the rest and their crews.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lysander captured all but ten Athenian triremes, whose crews escaped to Cyprus.(Book 3 · Chapter 11 · 📍 Ægos-potamoi)
  • With: Lysander
  • “Agias, who they say foretold Lysander that he would capture all the Athenian fleet at Ægos-potamoi but ten triremes: they got off safe to Cyprus, but the Lacedæmonians took all the rest and their crews.”

Book 3 · Chapter 11

• with Lysander (Agias gave a prophecy concerning Lysander.) “they say foretold Lysander that he would capture all the Athenian fleet at Ægos-potamoi but ten triremes”
• parent: Agelochus “This Agias was the son of Agelochus, the son of Tisamenus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.