Mindarus

Mindarus in Wikipedia

Mindarus was a Spartan admiral who commanded the Peloponnesian fleet in 411 and 410 BC, during the Peloponnesian War. Successful in shifting the theater of war into the Hellespont, he then experienced a string of defeats; in the third and final of these, he himself was killed and the entire Peloponnesian fleet was captured or destroyed. Relocation...

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Mindărus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Μίνδαρος). A Lacedaemonian who succeeded Astyochus in command of the Spartan fleet, B.C. 411; and who was defeated and slain by the Athenians near Cyzicus the next year (Thuc.viii. 85, 104)....

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