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{{Short description|Spartan military and political leader (died 395 BC)}} {{About|the Spartan admiral}} {{Use British English|date=February 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox military person | native_name = Λύσανδρος | image = Lysander outside the walls of Athens 19th century lithograph.jpg | caption = Lysander outside the walls of Athens, ordering their destruction. 19th century lithograph. | image_size = 300 | birth_date = {{circa| 454 BC}}<ref name="Detlef Lotze 1964">Detlef Lotze, ''Lysander und der Peloponnesische Krieg'', Berlin: Akademie (1964), 13</ref> | death_date = 395 BC (aged {{circa}} 59) | death_place = [[Haliartus]] | allegiance = [[Sparta]] | branch = | serviceyears = | rank = [[Navarch]] | unit = | commands = | battles = {{plainlist| [[Peloponnesian War]] :[[Battle of Notium]] :[[Battle of Aegospotami]] [[Corinthian War]] :[[Battle of Haliartus]]{{KIA}} }} | awards = | relations = | laterwork = }} '''Lysander''' ({{IPAc-en|l|aɪ|ˈ|s|æ|n|d|ər|,_|ˈ|l|aɪ|ˌ|s|æ|n|d|ər}}; {{langx|grc|Λύσανδρος}} {{transliteration|grc|Lysandros}}; {{Circa}} 454 BC – 395 BC) was a [[Sparta]]n military and political leader. He destroyed the [[Classical Athens|Athenian]] fleet at the [[Battle of Aegospotami]] in 405 BC, forcing Athens to capitulate and bringing the [[Peloponnesian War]] to an end. He then played a key role in Sparta's domination of Greece for the next decade until his death at the [[Battle of Haliartus]]. Lysander's vision for Sparta differed from most Spartans; he wanted to overthrow the Athenian Empire and replace it with Spartan hegemony.<ref>Donald Kagan, ''The Fall of the Athenian Empire'', Cornell University, 1987, p. 300. {{ISBN?}}</ref>
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