Deed — 4 authors face each other below

battle of Aegospotami

kind: battle · 405 BCE — the editor’s frame · 7 mentions across 7 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass receipt — the deed shelf, first pass receipt — the witness index

Lysander's destruction of the last Athenian fleet in the Hellespont, ending the war at a stroke.

Where the accounts part — the record’s own argument; the witnesses below carry the receipts

Alcibiades rode down to warn the generals and was insulted for it — Xenophon and Plutarch agree on the warning, diverge on its content and the insult. Around the battle the record hangs its portents: the meteor of Aegospotami, which Diogenes' philosophers had predicted a lifetime before.

The regnal line — the editor’s table of years, never the record’s voice

Anchored at 405 BCE on the editor’s table of years .

· 405 BCE — date secure ·

405 BCE; Polybius (1.6) uses the sea-fight as a chronological anchor — 'the nineteenth year after' it, the Gauls took Rome.

The accounts, side by side — each witness in its own words; every quote is the served record’s, linked to its episode

Plutarch · 2 accounts

36–37 the principal narrative The exile's warning from his tower, and the generals' contempt.

were wont to sail out at daybreak against Lysander, who lay with his fleet at Lampsacus, and challenge him to battle. Plut. Alcibiades 36

In spite of what Alcibiades said, and in spite of his advice to change their station to Sestos, the generals paid no heed. Plut. Alcibiades 37

Alcibiades · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

9–13 the principal narrative Lysander's trap from the victor's biography, with the meteor tradition attached.

sailed along to Aegospotami, over against their enemies, who were still in station at Lampsacus. Plut. Lysander 9

of vast size had fallen from heaven at Aegospotami, and it is shown to this day by the dwellers in the Chersonese Plut. Lysander 12

Lysander · Bernadotte Perrin, 1914–1926

Xenophon · one account

2.1 the principal narrative The contemporary account: the five days' baiting, the empty ships taken at once.

sailed on further to Aegospotami, a point facing Lampsacus, where the Hellespont is not quite two miles broad. Xen. Hell. 2.1

Hellenica · H. G. Dakyns, 1890-1897

Polybius · one account

1.6 looking back Polybius dating by the battle, generations later.

the nineteenth year after the sea-fight at Aegospotami Plb. 1.6

The Histories · Evelyn S. Shuckburgh, 1889

Diogenes Laertius · one account

2.8-10 in passing Anaxagoras credited with predicting the famous stone from the sun.

icted the fall of the meteoric stone at Aegospotami, which he said would fall from the sun. D.L. 2.8-10

Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume I (Books I-V) · R. D. Hicks, 1925

Who stands in this deed — standing in the same episodes; counted by the house’s first pass

Lysander — 5 episodes shared Alcibiades — 3 episodes shared Adeimantus — a candidate entry Conon — 2 episodes shared Cyrus — a candidate entry Agis — a candidate entry Agis II — 1 episode shared Anaxagoras — 1 episode shared Antalcidas — 1 episode shared Artaxerxes — 1 episode shared

Doors to the sister houses

logoi — the words

No door is cut to the word-house from this room yet. logoi.health keeps the words meanwhile.

mythoi — the stories

No door is cut to the story-house from this room yet. mythoi.health keeps the stories meanwhile.

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served

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