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Lysander (/ l aɪ ˈ s æ n d ər, ˈ l aɪ ˌ s æ n d ər /; Greek: Λύσανδρος Lysandros; c. 454 BC – 395 BC) was a Spartan military and political leader. He destroyed the Athenian fleet at the Battle of Aegospotami in 405 BC, forcing Athens to capitulate and bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end.
Mar 18, 2016 · Lysander (d. 395 BCE) was a Spartan statesman and general who famously defeated the Athenian navy at the Battle of Aigospotamoi in 405 BCE, which finally won the Peloponnesian War. Lysander gained a reputation for a fiery personality, daring strategies, and a ruthless treatment of prisoners and subject cities.
Lysander is a character in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the four lovers involved in a ‘love quadrangle’ made up of Lysander, Demetrius, Hermia and Helena. Lysander is a young Athenian. He is in love with Hermia, the daughter of Egeus, an Athenian nobleman.
Lysander, like Demetrius, is a young gentleman of Athens whose affections are changed by the whims of fairies throughout the play. The audience knows that he loves Hermia enough to want to run away with her, but Lysander is not the man Hermia’s father has chosen for her to marry.
Lysander was a Greek military and political leader who won the final victory for Sparta in the Peloponnesian War and, at its close, wielded great power throughout Greece. Nothing is known of his early career.
Lysander (d. 395 BCE) was a Spartan statesman and general who famously defeated the Athenian navy at the Battle of Aigospotamoi in 405 BCE, which finally won the Peloponnesian War.
Lysander is one of the main characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a comedy by English playwright William Shakespeare. Lysander loves Hermia but her father, Egeus, refuses to let them marry...
Aug 15, 2006 · Cyrus sent Lysander a gold-and-ivory model of a trireme to celebrate the victory, and Lysander dedicated the unique work at Delphi, in the Treasury of Brasidas (Plut., 18.2). In the meantime, Lysander had been busy in politics.
Mar 16, 2020 · Updated on March 16, 2020. In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Lysander bravely challenges Egeus over his choice of a suitor for Hermia. Lysander professes his love for Hermia and exposes Demetrius as inconstant, having rejected Helena in favor of her friend.
Jan 29, 2020 · War Between Sparta and Thebes. War broke out between Sparta and Thebes in 395, and Lysander was killed when his troops were surprised by a Theban ambush. Cite this Article. Learn about Lysander who was one of the Heraclidae at Spartan and an important general of the Classical Age of Greece.
