Leosthenes (admiral)
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Leosthenes (in Greek Λεωσθένης; died 361 BC) was an Athenian, who commanded a fleet and armament in the Cyclades in 361 BC. Having allowed himself to be surprised by Alexander, tyrant of Pherae, and defeated, with a loss of five triremes and 600 men, he was condemned to death by the Athenians, as a punishment for his ill success.1
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- Smith, William (editor); Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Leosthenes (1)", Boston, (1867)
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1 Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca, xv. 95
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).
