-
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...
- 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...
- triremes,
without hoplite accompaniment,
commanded by Nicias, Alcibiades, and
Lamachus.
Thucydides reports that
Nicias had been
appointed against his preference...
-
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...
-
naming years.
After suffering a
defeat in
which the
Athenian commander Lamachus is killed,
Demosthenes suggests that they
immediately give up the siege...
-
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...
- into exile. The
Athenian expedition to
Sicily sets sail
under Nicias,
Lamachus and Alcibiades.
After his
departure with the armada,
Alcibiades is accused...
- at that time
occupied by the Syracusans, but
which the
Athenian general Lamachus,
during the
expedition against Syracuse (415–413 BC),
proposed to make...
- Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates, Leon,
Lamachus, and Demosthenes. However, Athens's
chief goal, the
restoration of Amphipolis...
- 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'...
