Mindarus

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: admiral · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 1

Mindarus arrived from Lacedaemon to succeed Astyochus as admiral and assumed command. At Miletus, Philip the Lacedaemonian and Hippocrates the Spartan reported that Tissaphernes’s ships would not arrive and that he was abusing them. Mindarus later yielded to Pharnabazus’s importunities, left Miletus with seventy-three ships, and sailed for the Hellespont.

At Cynossema, Mindarus commanded the Peloponnesian left wing, opposite the Athenian forces led by Thrasyllus and Thrasybulus. The Athenians defeated the Peloponnesian fleet, capturing enemy ships and losing fifteen of their own; afterward, the Peloponnesians recovered the captured galleys that remained uninjured.

Relationship record

Life events

• Mindarus arrived to succeed Astyochus as admiral and assumed command.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 1)
  • With: Astyochus
  • “Mindarus arrived from Lacedaemon to succeed Astyochus as admiral, and assumed the command.”
• Philip and Hippocrates reported to Mindarus that Tissaphernes’s ships would not come and that he was abusing them.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4 · 📍 Miletus)
  • With: Philip the Lacedaemonian Hippocrates the Spartan Tissaphernes
  • “Philip, who had been sent with him, and another Spartan, Hippocrates, who was at Phaselis, wrote word to Mindarus, the admiral, that the ships were not coming at all, and that they were being grossly abused by Tissaphernes.”
• Mindarus left Miletus with seventy-three ships and sailed for the Hellespont.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4 · 📍 Miletus)
  • With: Pharnabazus
  • “until at length, at about the period of the summer which we have now reached, Mindarus yielded to his importunities, and, with great order and at a moment’s notice, in order to elude the enemy at Samos, weighed anchor with seventy-three ships from Miletus and set sail for the Hellespont.”
• The Athenians defeated the Peloponnesian fleet in the sea-fight.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 5 · 📍 Hellespont)
  • With: Thrasyllus Thrasybulus
  • “The rout was now complete. Most of the Peloponnesians fled for refuge first to the river Midius, and afterwards to Abydos.”
• The Athenians captured enemy ships and lost fifteen of their own.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 5 · 📍 Point Cynossema)
  • With: Thrasyllus Thrasybulus
  • “Meanwhile they took from the enemy eight Chian vessels, five Corinthian, two Ambraciot, two Boeotian, one Leucadian, Lacedaemonian, Syracusan, and Pellenian, losing fifteen of their own.”
• The Peloponnesians recovered their captured galleys that remained uninjured.(Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 5 · 📍 Elaeus)
  • “In the meantime the Peloponnesians sailed from Abydos to Elaeus, and recovered such of their captured galleys as were still uninjured, the rest having been burned by the Elaeusians”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 1

• with Astyochus (interaction) “Mindarus arrived from Lacedaemon to succeed Astyochus as admiral, and assumed the command.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 4

• with Philip the Lacedaemonian (Philip sent information to Mindarus.) “To return to the Peloponnesians in Miletus. No pay was forthcoming from any of the agents deputed by Tissaphernes for that purpose upon his departure for Aspendus; neither the Phoenician fleet nor Tissaphernes showed any signs of appearing, and Philip, who had been sent with him, and another Spartan, Hippocrates, who was at Phaselis, wrote word to Mindarus, the admiral, that the ships were not coming at all, and that they were being grossly abused by Tissaphernes.”
• with Hippocrates the Spartan (Hippocrates sent information to Mindarus.) “To return to the Peloponnesians in Miletus. No pay was forthcoming from any of the agents deputed by Tissaphernes for that purpose upon his departure for Aspendus; neither the Phoenician fleet nor Tissaphernes showed any signs of appearing, and Philip, who had been sent with him, and another Spartan, Hippocrates, who was at Phaselis, wrote word to Mindarus, the admiral, that the ships were not coming at all, and that they were being grossly abused by Tissaphernes.”
• with Pharnabazus (Pharnabazus invited the Peloponnesian fleet, and Mindarus acted on his importunities.) “Meanwhile Pharnabazus was inviting them to come, and making every effort to get the fleet and, like Tissaphernes, to cause the revolt of the cities in his government still subject to Athens, founding great hopes on his success; until at length, at about the period of the summer which we have now reached, Mindarus yielded to his importunities, and, with great order and at a moment’s notice, in order to elude the enemy at Samos, weighed anchor with seventy-three ships from Miletus and set sail for the Hellespont.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 5

• enemies with Thrasyllus “The Peloponnesian right wing was occupied by the Syracusans, their left by Mindarus in person with the best sailers in the navy; the Athenian left by Thrasyllus, their right by Thrasybulus, the other commanders being in different parts of the fleet.”
• enemies with Thrasybulus “The Peloponnesian right wing was occupied by the Syracusans, their left by Mindarus in person with the best sailers in the navy; the Athenian left by Thrasyllus, their right by Thrasybulus, the other commanders being in different parts of the fleet.”

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