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Figures of the Peloponessian War

Agis

Alcibiades

Alcidas

Brasidas

• Spartan general
• commanded the Spartan forces at Amphipolis

Callicratidas

Cimon

Cleon

Conon

Demosthenes

Gylippus

Lysander

Mindarus

Nicias

Pausanias

Pericles

• anti-Spartan

Pharnabazus

Philocles

Phormio

Themistocles

Thucydides

• Athenian historian
• commanded troops and ships during the war
• commander of the Athenian fleet at Amphipolis
• exiled after the Athenian defeat at Amphipolis
• chiefly responsible for our knowledge of the Pelopennisian war
• died in 411 before he could complete his work

Xenophon