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Plutarch · c. AD 46-after 119

Life of Lysander

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Plutarch's Life of Lysander tells of the Spartan admiral who won the naval battle of Aegospotami, ended the Peloponnesian War by taking Athens, and set up decadarchies of his friends in the Greek cities. It covers his dealings with the Persian prince Cyrus, his honours from the cities, his quarrel with the kings, a plot to open the Spartan kingship to the best men, and his death at Haliartus. It also tells how his poverty was discovered after his death.

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Greek original with English translation, 12 passages, about 12000 words in English.
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin (1916)
Edition
Bernadotte Perrin (ed. and trans.), Plutarch's Lives, vol. 4, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1916 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus)
Cite as
Plutarch, Life of Lysander 1.1 (by chapter, section)

Contents · 12 passages

  1. 1.1–3.3Lysander: the statue at Delphi, his upbringing, and his command at Ephesus800 words
  2. 4.1–5.5Lysander and Cyrus; the sea fight at Ephesus and the fall of Alcibiades737 words
  3. 6.1–8.4Callicratidas at the door of Cyrus, and Lysander's fox-skin tricks1008 words
  4. 9.1–11.7Lysander wins the battle of Aegospotami1290 words
  5. 12.1–7The stone that fell at Aegospotami and the Dioscuri over Lysander's ship581 words
  6. 13.1–15.5Lysander and the surrender of Athens: the Long Walls torn down1295 words
  7. 16.1–18.5Gylippus and the owls; the ban on private gold and silver; Lysander honoured as a god1087 words
  8. 19.1–21.4Pharnabazus' letter, the scytale and Lysander's journey to Ammon1270 words
  9. 22.1–23.9Lysander makes Agesilaus king despite the oracle of the lame royalty1133 words
  10. 24.1–26.4Lysander's plot to open the kingship, and the oracle plan with Silenus991 words
  11. 27.1–28.6The Boeotian war and the battle of Haliartus868 words
  12. 29.1–30.5The oracle of Hoplites and the burial of Lysander963 words

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English translation by Bernadotte Perrin (1916). Original text: Bernadotte Perrin (ed. and trans.), Plutarch's Lives, vol. 4, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, 1916 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus).

Greek text and translation from the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library); translation public domain. Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.