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405 BCEAegospotami

2,430 years ago

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Aegospotami

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431–⁠405 BCE: War with Sparta

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The Athenian fleet is lost at Aegospotami

Lysander captures almost the whole Athenian fleet on the beach at Aegospotami. When the news reaches Athens at night, no one sleeps.

It was at night that the Paralus arrived at Athens with tidings of the disaster, and a sound of wailing ran from Piraeus through the long walls to the city, one man passing on the news to another; and during that night no one slept

Xenophon, Hellenica 2.2.3Translated by Carleton L. Brownson (1918)Read the full passage (Xenophon, Hellenica 2.2.3, opens scaife.perseus.org)

Background: Battle of Aegospotami, Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org)

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