Mindarus
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan officer sent from Lacedaemon to replace Astyochus as admiral of the fleet.
When their affairs, then, were involved in these dissensions both with Astyochus and Tissaphernes, Mindarus arrived from Lacedaemon to succeed Astyochus as admiral, and assumed the command, while Astyochus sailed away.
On the side of the Peloponnesians, the right wing was held by the Syracusans, the other by Mindarus himself and the fastest sailing vessels;
under these circumstances, I say, Mindarus, with great regularity, and with orders suddenly given, to escape the observation of those at Samos, weighed anchor from Miletus with three and seventy ships, and sailed for the Hellespont.
Hellenica
The Lacedaemonian admiral commanding the Peloponnesian fleet in the Hellespont, who is killed in battle at Cyzicus.
There they learned that Mindarus was at Cyzicus, and also Pharnabazus with his army.
Alcibiades, however, with twenty of his ships sailed round the fleets and landed on the shore.
Meanwhile a letter dispatched to Lacedaemon by Hippocrates, vice-admiral under Mindarus, was intercepted and taken to Athens;