Antiochus

Family: Athenians · Role: pilot · First appears: Book 1, section 5

In Book 1, section 5, Alcibiades left Antiochus in command of the fleet, with orders not to attack Lysander’s fleet. Antiochus later sailed from Notium into Ephesus harbour with two ships, passing Lysander’s squadron; Lysander pursued him. At Cape Notium, the Athenians were defeated, losing fifteen ships, and Lysander erected a trophy.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lysander defeated the Athenians at Notium, capturing fifteen ships and erecting a trophy.(Book 1, section 5 · 📍 Cape Notium)
  • With: Lysander
  • “the Athenians came up in scattered detachments and without concert, and in the end were put to flight with the loss of fifteen ships of war.”

Book 1, section 5

• with Alcibiades (Alcibiades left Antiochus in command of the fleet.) “Alcibiades, being informed that Thrasybulus had come south of the Hellespont and was fortifying Phocaea, sailed across to join him, leaving his own pilot Antiochus in command of the fleet, with orders not to attack Lysander's fleet.”
• with Lysander (Lysander pursued Antiochus.) “Antiochus, however, was tempted to leave Notium and sail into the harbour of Ephesus with a couple of ships, his own and another, past the prows of Lysander's squadron. The Spartan at first contented himself with launching a few of his ships, and started in pursuit of the intruder;”

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