Agesander

Family: Lacedaemonians · Role: ambassador · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 4

At Athens, Agesander served as a Lacedaemonian ambassador alongside Ramphias and Melesippus, delivering an ultimatum demanding that the Hellenes be left independent. The message was: “Lacedaemon wishes the peace to continue, and there is no reason why it should not, if you would leave the Hellenes independent.”

Later, Agesandridas is identified as Agesander’s son and a Spartan commander.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Lacedaemonian ambassadors delivered an ultimatum demanding that the Hellenes be left independent.(Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 4 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Ramphias Melesippus
  • “At last an embassy arrived with the Lacedaemonian ultimatum. The ambassadors were Ramphias, Melesippus, and Agesander. Not a word was said on any of the old subjects; there was simply this: ‘Lacedaemon wishes the peace to continue, and there is no reason why it should not, if you would leave the Hellenes independent.’”

Book 1 · Chapter 5 · Part 4

• with Ramphias (Fellow ambassadors.) “The ambassadors were Ramphias, Melesippus, and Agesander.”
• with Melesippus (Fellow ambassadors.) “The ambassadors were Ramphias, Melesippus, and Agesander.”

Book 8 · Chapter 26 · Part 3

• child: Agesandridas “under the command of Agesandridas, son of Agesander, a Spartan.”

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