Epicleas (admiral)

Epicleas was an admiral from Sparta during the Peloponnesian War.

Fleet of triremes made up of photographs of the modern full-sized replica Olympias.

In 411 BC the Spartans lost a fleet of 50 ships under the command of Epicleas.[1][2] At the height of the Peloponnesian War, the Spartan fleet was caught in a violent storm while sailing past Mount Athos. Of the fifty ships only 12 men survived.

References
  1. Diodorus Siculus, "Bibliotheca historica" XIII 41, 1–3.
  2. Martin Hammond, The Peloponnesian War (Google eBook) (Oxford University Press, 2009) VIII 108.


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