These ships were not just tools of war. They were extensions of Athenian values and state pride. After devastating losses like the defeat at Aegospotami in 404 BC, Athens rebuilt its fleet and ...

The twenty-seven-year Peloponnesian War came to an end when the Spartan navy destroyed the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami and seized control of the Bosphorus, severing Athens’s food supply and ...

Built by the now-defunct Westland Aircraft, the Lysander made its maiden flight on June 15, 1936, and made its official operational debut with the RAF in June 1938. It had been first envisioned in ...

By these measures, importing foreign products became impossible. However, after the Battle of Aegospotami, when Sparta reintroduced gold currency, greed and corruption emerged. The Spartans also ...

Military history records some of the greatest battles as being fought at sea, engagements such as the Battle of Aegospotami and the Battle of Trafalgar. Commanding these forces were men who became ...

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Attempting to expand Spartan influence in the east, Sparta’s new king Agesilaus soon alienated Persia, and the Athenian admiral Conon, one of the few who had escaped the carnage at Aegospotami ...

Lysander had just won the naval triumph at Aegospotami (405 BC), which granted Sparta hegemony over Greece and marked the end of the Peloponnesian War the following year. The victorious city was in a ...