Laughs

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Laches (* around 460 BC; † 418 BC ) was an Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War .

Laches, the son of Melanopus, was born in 427 BC. Chr. Together with Charöades with a fleet of Sicily to sent Leontinoi and allied with him remaining chalkidisch-ionic States against Syracuse to support. When Charöades fell in 426, Laches took command of the fleet alone and forced Mylä and Messana to surrender. In early 425 he was replaced by Pythodorus in command . From Kleon have accused committed in Sicily embezzlement, he was acquitted, but received no command more and pulled by Hippocrates as Hoplite with by Viotia , where, as the philosopher Socrates and his pupil Alcibiades , at the battle of Delion attended . After Kleon's death regained influence, he negotiated the peace with Nikias , which came about in the spring of 421. In 418 he and Nikostratus commanded the troops that were sent to the aid of the Argei . Both Athenian generals fell at the Battle of Mantineia .

literature

  • Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, August Friedrich von Pauly: The New Pauly  : Enzyklopädie der Antike. Volume 6, Iul-Lee Stuttgart: JB Metzler, 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 .
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SURNAME Laughs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Athenian general in the Peloponnesian War
DATE OF BIRTH around 460 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 418 BC Chr.