Aigospotamoi (14)
Aigospotamoi:Â the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (431-404). In September 405, the Athenians were decisively defeated by the Spartans and lost their navy. As a result, the siege and fall of Athens became inevitable.
Literature
- A. Andrewes, "The generals in the Hellespont, 410-407 B.C.", in: Journal of Hellenic Studies 73 (1953), 2-9.
- B. Bleckman, Athens Weg in die Niederlage. Die letzte Jahre des Peloponnesischen Kriegs (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1998)
- J.-F. Bommelaer, Lysandre de Sparte (Paris, 1981)
- C. Ehrhardt, "Xenophon and Diodorus on Aegospotami", in: Phoenix. Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 24 (1970), 225-228.
- D. Kagan, The Fall of the Athenian Empire (Ithaca, New York and Londen, 1987)
- D. Kagan, The Peloponnesian War (Ithaca, New York and London, 2003)
- D. Lotze, Lysander und der Peloponnesische Krieg (Berlin, 1964)
- P. de Souza, The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC (Oxford, 2002)
- B.S. Strauss, "A Note on the Topography and Tactics of the Battle of Aegospotami", in: American Journal of Philology 108 (1987), 741-745.
- B.S. Strauss, "Aegospotami Reexamined", in: American Journal of Philology 104 (1983), 24-35.
- G. Wylie, "What really happened at Aegospotami", in: L'Antiquité Classique 55 (1986), 125-141.