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 Agesandridas, after his men had dined, put out from Oropus, which is distant from Eretria about sixty stades by sea.
And it might, perhaps, in some measure have been by appointment that Agesandridas lingered about Epidaurus and that neighbourhood;
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;
Hellenica
A Lacedaemonian commander who wins a naval victory over the Athenians and later holds ships on the Thracian coast.
and thereupon the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians fought another naval battle, and the Lacedaemonians were victorious, under the leadership of Agesandridas.
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;