Battle of Aegospotami
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Aegospotami · the disaster · the disaster which befell us in the Hellespont · the sea-battle at Aegospotami
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Decisive naval defeat that led directly to Spartan domination and the Thirty's rise
For in the following year, in the archonship of Alexias, they met with disaster in the sea-battle at Aegospotami, from which it came about that Lysander, having become master of the city, set up the Thirty in the following way.
Panegyricus
The naval disaster that ended Athenian maritime supremacy and precipitated a resurgence of Persian power in the Aegean.
In fact, after the disaster which befell us in the Hellespont, when our rivals took our place as leaders, the barbarians won a naval victory, became rulers of the sea, occupied most of the islands, made a landing in Laconia, took Cythera by storm, and sailed around the whole Peloponnesus, inflicting damage as they went.
Hellenica
The decisive surprise naval attack in which Lysander destroys the Athenian fleet, effectively ending the war at sea.
At sunrise the Athenians formed their ships in line for battle at the mouth of the harbour.
And now Lysander, on the fifth day the Athenians sailed out against him, told his men, who followed them back, that as soon as they saw that the enemy had disembarked and had scattered up and down the Chersonese, —and the Athenians did this far more freely every day, not only because they bought their provisions at a distance, but also because they presumed to think lightly of Lysander for not put …
Now when Conon saw the oncoming attack, he signalled the Athenians to hasten with all their might to their ships.