Agesandridas
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Agesander · Agesandridas son of Agesander
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Spartan commander of the Peloponnesian squadron that sails against Euboea and defeats the Athenian fleet off Eretria.
For some ships from the Peloponnese, whose aid the Euboeans had invited, to the number of two and forty, including some Italian and Sicilian vessels from Tarentum and Locri, also happened to be now lying off Las, in Laconia, and preparing for their passage to Euboea, under the command of Agesandridas son of Agesander, a Spartan.
When the day for holding the assembly was come, and they had all but met, news were brought that the two and forty ships with Agesander were advancing from Megara along the coast of Salamis;
For Agesandridas, after his men had dined, put out from Oropus, which is distant from Eretria about sixty stades by sea.
Hellenica
A Lacedaemonian commander who wins a naval victory over the Athenians and later holds ships on the Thracian coast.
His plan was to assemble those which had been left behind by Pasippidas as guardships and were now in the Hellespont, those at Antandrus, and those which Agesandridas, a lieutenant of Mindarus, had under his command on the Thracian coast, and finally, to have other ships built;