Antalcidas

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Antalcidas traveled to Susa to negotiate the peace at the Achaemenid court.

Antalcidas (

ancient Greek soldier, politician, and diplomat from Sparta
.

Life

Antalcidas came from a prominent family and was likely a relation by marriage to the Spartan king Agesilaus II.[1]

Antalcidas is first recorded at the outset of the

Phoenician and Cypriot ships in attacks that culminated in the destruction of the Spartan fleet at Cnidus. He was then permitted to return to Athens with part of the fleet and given funds to rebuild the city's Long Walls
.

Soon afterwards, in 393 or 392 BC, Antalcidas was dispatched to

King Artaxerxes II learned that Antalcidas had further convinced Tiribazus to provide funds for rebuilding Sparta's demolished navy, he replaced the satrap with Struthas, who resumed raiding Sparta and her allies.[2] However, the Spartan fleet thus funded regained control of the Gulf of Corinth by the end of the year.[4]

Tiribazos
was the main negotiating counterpart to Antalcidas, on the Achaemenid side.

For unknown reasons, Tiribazus was restored to power in Lydia by 388 BC.

Argos, Sparta, and the Persians at Tiribazus's seat at Sardis. By the winter of 387 BC, the Peace of Antalcidas
had been arranged, by the terms of which:

  1. all of
    Clazomenae and Cyprus
    , was recognized as subject to Persia, and
  2. all
    Scyros, which were returned to the Athenians.[3]

The terms were ratified by the city governments over the next year. The reassertion of Spartan hegemony over Greece by abandoning the Greeks of

Greek history".[5]

Antalcidas continued in favor with Artaxerxes until the

Agesilaus after one of the Spartan losses to Thebes, saying in effect, "Isn't it amazing how good they've gotten after all of the training we've given them."[6] That year[2] or possibly in 367 BC, Antalcidas undertook a final mission to Persia. Plutarch held that its failure drove him to starve himself to death.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, Antalcidas
  2. ^ a b c d e f g EB (1878).
  3. ^ a b c d EB (1911).
  4. ^ Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.8.10–11
  5. ^ Durant, Will (1939), The Life of Greece, p. 461.
  6. Lycurgus
    , 13.5-13.6

References

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