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AegospotamosenUK ThesaurusNoun | 1. | Aegospotamos - a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian WarAegospotamiRepublic of Turkey, Turkey - a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 | | 2. | Aegospotamos - a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey); in the mouth of this river the Spartan fleet under Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (404 BC)AegospotamiPeloponnesian War - a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta; 431-404 BC |
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Aegospotamos (ē'gəspŏ`təməs), river of ancient Thrace flowing into the Hellespont. At its mouth in 405 B.C. occurred the culminating battle of the Peloponnesian WarPeloponnesian War , 431–404 B.C., decisive struggle in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta. It ruined Athens, at least for a time. The rivalry between Athens' maritime domain and Sparta's land empire was of long standing. Athens under Pericles (from 445 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. . Lysander and his Spartan fleet had come north to cut the grain supply of Athens. The Athenian fleet under Conon came to Aegospotamos and at first vainly tried to induce the Spartans to fight. Despite the warnings of AlcibiadesAlcibiades , c.450–404 B.C., Athenian statesman and general. Of the family of Alcmaeonidae, he was a ward of Pericles and was for many years a devoted attendant of Socrates. He turned to politics after the Peace of Nicias (421 B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. , Conon and his men did not take proper precautions. Lysander fell upon them and completely destroyed the Athenian fleet.AegospotamosenUK
Synonyms for Aegospotamosnoun a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day TurkeySynonymsRelated Wordsnoun a river in ancient Thrace (now Turkey)SynonymsRelated Words |