Brasidas
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9786130726430
Brasidas was a Spartan officer during the first decade of the Peloponnesian War. He was the son of Tellis and Argileonis, and won his first laurels by the relief of Methone, which was besieged by the Athenians (431 BC). During the following year he seems to have been eponymous ephor (Xen. Hell. ii. 3, 10), and in 429 he was sent out as one of the three commissioners to advise the admiral Cnemus. As trierarch he distinguished himself in the assault on the Athenian position at the Battle of Pylos, during which he was severely wounded (Thuc. iv. II. 12). In the next year, while Brasidas mustered a force at Corinth for a campaign in Thrace, he frustrated an Athenian attack on Megara (Thuc. iv. 70-73), and immediately afterwards marched through Thessaly at the head of 700 helots and 1000 Peloponnesian mercenaries to join the Macedonian king Perdiccas.
EAN: | 9786130726430 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 144 |
Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
Herausgeber: | Miller, Frederic P. Vandome, Agnes F. McBrewster, John |
Verlag: | Alphascript Publishing |
Schlagworte: | Pylos Sparta Xenophon |