Sthenelaidas
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Spartan ephor whose reported speech is cited via Thucydides.
And, as Thucydides relates, Sthenelaidas, one of the Ephori, maintains that “where we have been injured, not by words, but by actions, the matter cannot be decided by words and forms.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan ephor who speaks forcefully for immediate war and presides over the assembly's vote.
(pointing out a certain place to them);
As for the long speech of the Athenians, I do not understand it;
and neither permit the Athenians to become greater, nor let us betray our allies;