-
necessary wealth and
social position.
Plutarch first mentions Lamachus in The Life of Pericles.
Lamachus was
given command of a
fleet of
thirteen ships so that...
- triremes,
without hoplite accompaniment,
commanded by Nicias, Alcibiades, and
Lamachus.
Thucydides reports that
Nicias had been
appointed against his preference...
- ****embly, but they did not
trust him with sole command. They
decided that
Lamachus and,
disastrously in view of his opposition,
Nicias should accompany him...
- one
calling Lamachus to war, the
other calling Dikaiopolis to a
dinner party. The two men go as
summoned and
return soon after:
Lamachus, in pain from...
-
commander Lamachus is killed. Nicias,
although ill, is left in sole
charge of the
siege of Syracuse. Aristophanes' play The
Birds is performed.
Lamachus, Athenian...
-
since Hermes (as a
guide to the Underworld) is now
responsible for him.
Lamachus: He was a
fearless general ****ociated with the pro-war
faction but he nevertheless...
- the
river which Thucydides calls Calex (Κάληξ), at the
mouth of
which Lamachus lost his ships,
which were anc****d there,
owing to a
sudden rise of the...
- long-running
Peloponnesian War.
Among those who died in the
Sicilian campaign was
Lamachus,
satirized in The
Acharnians as a
maniacal war-monger. In 'Thesmophoriazusae'...
- at that time
occupied by the Syracusans, but
which the
Athenian general Lamachus,
during the
expedition against Syracuse (415–413 BC),
proposed to make...
-
Against his
wishes Nicias was
appointed general along with
Alcibiades and
Lamachus, all
three of whom were
given full
powers to do
whatever was in the best...
