Alexicles
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Against Leocrates
One of the two men executed and denied burial for defending Phrynichus after his posthumous conviction for treason.
they killed his defenders, Aristarchus and Alexicles, and even refused them burial in the country.
History of the Peloponnesian War
An Athenian general favorable to the oligarchic faction, arrested during the Piraeus uprising and later released.
On this change being made, the party of Pisander and Alexicles, and all who were most devoted to the oligarchy, withdrew privily to Decelea;
while the soldiers in the Piraeus, after releasing Alexicles, whom they had arrested, and demolishing the fortification, came to the temple of Bacchus close to Munychia, and having piled their arms, held an assembly there out of the usual place;
For the heavy-armed who were in the Piraeus, building the wall in Eetionia, amongst whom also was Aristocrates a taxiarch, with his company, arrested Alexicles, who was a general on the side of the oligarchy, and very favourably inclined to the associates, and taking him into a house confined him there.