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Epicles (admiral)

spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War

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Source revisionJan 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ17479567 ↗
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Epicles (Ancient Greek: Ἐπικλῆς) was an admiral from Sparta during the Peloponnesian War.

In 411 BC, the Spartans lost a fleet of 50 ships under the command of Epicleas. At the height of the Peloponnesian War, the Spartan fleet was caught in a violent storm while sailing past Mount Athos. Of the fifty ships only 12 men survived.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Epicles (admiral)” is spartan admiral during the Peloponnesian War. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Epicles, admiral and spartan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 58-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Epicles, admiral and spartan is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17479567. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Epicles (admiral)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.