Alexicles (general)

Alexicles (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξικλῆς) was an Athenian general who belonged to the oligarchial or Lacedaemonian party at Athens.[1] After the Athenian coup of 411 BC, he and several of his friends left the city and went to their friends at Decelea, but he was afterwards made prisoner in Piraeus and sentenced to death for his participation in the guilt of Phrynichus.[2][3]

Alexicles
Native name
Ἀλεξικλῆς
AllegianceAthens
Years of service5th Century BC
RankGeneral
Battles/warsAthenian coup of 411 BC

References
  1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexicles". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
  2. Thucydides, viii. 92
  3. Lycurgus of Athens, in Leocrates p. 164

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexicles". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.


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