Neocles died when he was young by the bite of a horse, and Diocles was adopted by his grandfather, Lysander.

Nevertheless, Lysander was a mothax: his family was poor and when he was young he needed sponsorship to be able to participate in the Spartan training to be a soldier.

A handsome young man of Athens, Lysander is in love with Egeus's daughter Hermia.

In addition to questions of his nephew's paternity, Agesilaus ' succession was largely due to the intervention of his Spartan general, Lysander, who hoped to find in him a willing tool for the furtherance of his political designs.

During these campaigns, Lysander attempted to manipulate Agesilaus into ceding his authority.

Agesilaus, the former passive lover of Lysander, would have nothing of this, and reminded Lysander ( who was only a Spartan general ) who was king.

This dominating move by Agesilaus earned the respect of his men-at-arms and of Lysander himself, who remained emotionally close with Agesilaus.

Hoping to restore the juntas of oligarchic partisans that he had put in place after the defeat of the Athenians in 404 BC, Lysander arranged for Agesilaus II, the Eurypontid Spartan king, to take command of the Greeks against Persia in 396 BC.

So Agesilaus II frustrated the plans of his former mentor and left Lysander in command of the troops in the Hellespont, far from Sparta and mainland Greece.

Following his death, an abortive scheme by Lysander to increase his power by making the Spartan kingships collective and that the Spartan king should not automatically be given the leadership of the army, was " discovered " by Agesilaus II.

Agis is supported by his wealthy mother and grandmother ( who surrender their property ), by his uncle Agesilaus, and by Lysander, who is an ephor ( magistrate with the duty of limiting the power of the king ).

That he studied general history, as we see from the quotations in Plutarch's lives of Lycurgus, Solon, Aristides, Pericles, Nicias, Alcibiades, Lysander, Agesilaus, and Demosthenes, which were probably borrowed from the work on Lives.

) One of Agesilaus ’ biggest supporters was the famous Spartan naval commander Lysander, who was previously Agesilaus ’ erastē, or mentor.

He succeeded, however, in gaining over three very influential persons: his uncle Agesilaus ( a man of large property, but who, being deeply involved in debt, hoped to profit by the innovations of Agis ), Lysander ( a descendant of the victor of Aegospotami ) and Mandrocleides.

Leonidas, who had returned to the city, fled again, to Tegea, protected from Agis by Agesilaus, who persuaded Agis and Lysander that the most effective way to secure the consent of the wealthy to the distribution of their lands, would be to begin by cancelling the debts.

Douglass came to agree with Smith and Lysander Spooner that the United States Constitution was an anti-slavery document.

In the wake of this surrender, the Spartan navarch Lysander imposed a strict oligarchic government on Athens, which came to be known as the Thirty Tyrants.

From Sparta, however, came not the aggressive Lysander, but the more conservative Pausanias.

Xenophon, in contrast, relates that the entire Athenian fleet came out as usual on the day of the battle, and Lysander remained in the harbor.

After the war he came into conflict with the Spartan general, Lysander.

Lysander Spooner was an individualist anarchist who apparently worked with little association with the other individualists of the time, but came to approximately the same conclusions.

Pausanias, the second king of Sparta ( see Spartan Constitution for more information on Sparta's dual monarchy ), was supposed to provide Lysander with reinforcements as they marched into Boeotia, yet failed to arrive in time to assist Lysander, likely because Pausanias disliked him for his brash and arrogant attitude towards the Spartan royalty and government.

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Although later in the play Puck manages to place the love potion in the right lovers eyes ( Demetrius who then see Helena ), peace is not restored until the love potion is also applied to Lysander, who then sees Hermia.

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During these conflicts in mainland Greece, Lysander perished while attacking the walls of Thebes.

In the Spartan general Lysander, Cyrus found a man who was willing to help him ; as Lysander himself hoped to become absolute ruler of Greece, by the aid of the Persian prince.

Among the early influences on individualist anarchism were William Godwin, Henry David Thoreau ( transcendentalism ), Josiah Warren (" sovereignty of the individual "), Lysander Spooner (" natural law "), Pierre Joseph Proudhon ( mutualism ), Anselme Bellegarrigue, Herbert Spencer (" law of equal liberty "), and Max Stirner ( egoism ).

After the Battle of Aegospotami ( 405 BC ), Thasos again fell into the hands of the Lacedaemonians under Lysander who formed a decarchy there ; but the Athenians must have recovered it, for it formed one of the subjects of dispute between them and Philip II of Macedonia.

Thirty men were selected: ten appointed by the " overseers ", ten chosen by Theramenes ( including himself ), and ten picked by Lysander.

Ruth Henshaw Bascom ( 1772 – 1848 ), the wife of Reverend Ezekial Lysander Bascom and daughter of Colonel William Henshaw and Phebe Swan, became America's premier portrait folk artist and pastelist, producing over one thousand portraits from 1789 to 1846.

There are several smaller outlying public cemeteries in locations such as Clifford, Vermillion, Fairdale, Hannibal, Lysander ( Cook and Jacksonville ), Mexico, Mt.

And the parchment, like the staff, is called scytale, as the thing measured bears the name of the measure .— Plutarch, Lives ( Lysander 19 ), ed.

Westland Lysander Mks. I, II, III / IIIA, III ( SD )/ IIIA ( SD ), TT Mks.

Notium, although not terribly significant in the number of ships won or lost by either side ( the gains made by the Spartan fleet were more than erased by their defeat at Arginusae ), had the significant effect of launching the career of Lysander and ending that of Alcibiades.

* Lysander ( Shakespeare ), a character in the William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream

* Lysander Farrar ( 1812 – 1876 ), New York politician

" The first well-known version of anarcho-capitalism was formulated by Austrian School economist and libertarian Murray Rothbard in the mid-twentieth century, synthesizing elements from the Austrian School of economics, classical liberalism, and nineteenth century American individualist anarchists Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker ( rejecting their labor theory of value and the normative implications they derived from it ).

At the end of the Peloponnesian War Lysander restored the scattered remnants of the old inhabitants to the island, which was used by the Spartans as a base for operations against Athens in the Corinthian War.

At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 by which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War.

Lysander SpoonerAnother form of individualist anarchism was found in the United States, as advocated by the " Boston anarchists.

Lysander Spooner besides his individualist anarchist activism was also an important anti-slavery activist and became a member of the First International.

The 19th-century anarchist and legal theorist, Lysander Spooner, was also a figure in the expression of modern natural law.

Unlike some of his predecessors the new Spartan general, Lysander, was not a member of the Spartan royal families and was also formidable in naval strategy ; he was an artful diplomat, who had even cultivated good personal relationships with the Persian prince Cyrus, the son of Darius II.

Lysander ( or ; died 395 BC,, Lýsandros ) was a Spartan general who commanded the Spartan fleet in the Hellespont which defeated the Athenians at Aegospotami in 405 BC.

Lysander was appointed Spartan navarch ( admiral ) for the Aegean Sea in 407 BC.