{"slug": "lysander", "label": "Lysander", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143559", "qid": "Q143559", "description": "Spartan military and political leader (died 395 BC)", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [-407, -394], "span_label": ["408 BCE", "395 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ephesus", "label": "Ephesus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lesbos", "label": "Lesbos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cereal", "label": "Cereal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cyprus", "label": "Cyprus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sea-of-marmara", "label": "Sea of Marmara", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hellespont", "label": "Hellespont", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "conon", "label": "Conon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "attica", "label": "Attica", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -407, "year_label": "408 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan admiral Lysander arrives at Ephesus in autumn and builds up a great fleet with help from the new Persian satrap, Cyrus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303241146#Greece", "title": "408 BC", "revid": 1303241146, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -406, "year_label": "407 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan admiral Lysander refuses to be lured out of Ephesus to do battle with Alcibiades. However, while Alcibiades is away seeking supplies, the Athenian squadron is placed under the command of Antiochus, his helmsman, who is routed by the Spartan fleet (with the help of the Persians under Cyrus) in the Battle of Notium (or Ephesus).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=996490221#Greece", "title": "407 BC", "revid": 996490221, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -405, "year_label": "406 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Callicratidas is appointed as the navarch of the Spartan fleet, replacing Lysander. Callicratidas assembles a fleet and sails to Methymna, on Lesbos, to which he lays siege. This move threatens the Athenian grain supply.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128825#Greece", "title": "406 BC", "revid": 1350128825, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -404, "year_label": "405 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After their victory in the Battle of Arginusae over the Spartans, the Athenian fleet follows the reappointed Spartan admiral, Lysander, to the Hellespont. The Athenian fleet under Admiral Conon is destroyed by the Spartans under Lysander in the Battle of Aegospotami in the Sea of Marmara and Conon flees to Cyprus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128832#Greece", "title": "405 BC", "revid": 1350128832, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -403, "year_label": "404 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan general, Lysander, puts in place a puppet government in Athens with the establishment of the oligarchy of the \"Thirty Tyrants\" under Critias and including Theramenes as a leading member. This government executes a number of citizens and deprives all but a few of their rights.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369378724#Greece", "title": "404 BC", "revid": 1369378724, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -402, "year_label": "403 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Thrasybulus leads the democratic resistance to the new oligarchic government, known as the Thirty Tyrants, that the victorious Spartans have imposed on Athens. He commands a small force of exiles that invades Attica and, in successive battles, defeats first a Spartan garrison and then the forces of the oligarchic government (which includes the Spartan general, Lysander) in the Battle of Munychia. The leader of the Thirty Tyrants, Critias, is killed in the battle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1246106639#Greece", "title": "403 BC", "revid": 1246106639, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -398, "year_label": "399 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Spartan admiral, Lysander, tries to effect a political revolution in Sparta by suggesting that the king should not automatically be given the leadership of the army. He also suggests that the position of king should be elective. However, he is unsuccessful in achieving these reforms, and earns the disfavour of King Agesilaus II of Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262065705#Greece", "title": "399 BC", "revid": 1262065705, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -394, "year_label": "395 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Spartans arrange for two armies, one under the Spartan general Lysander and the other under the Spartan King Pausanias, to rendezvous at and attack the Boeotian city of Haliartus. Lysander, arriving before Pausanias, persuades the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian confederacy, and then advances to Haliartus with his troops. There, he is killed after bringing his forces too near the walls of the city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370496371#Greece", "title": "395 BC", "revid": 1370496371, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -394, "year_label": "395 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Lysander, Spartan general and admiral", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370496371#Deaths", "title": "395 BC", "revid": 1370496371, "section": "Deaths"}}]}