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Laches (
Gr. Λάχης) (* c.
475 BCE in
Athens,
Greece; †
418 BCE in
Mantineia,
Greece) was an
Athenian aristocrat, the son of the Melanopos, and
general during the
Peloponnesian War.
In
427 BCE, Laches was sent together with Charoeades with a fleet of 20 ships to
Sicily, in order to support Athenian allies against
Syracuse. When Charoeades died in 426 BCE, Laches took over the supreme command of the fleet and forced the cities of
Mylae and
Messana to yield. However due to annual appointment of generals, he was replaced at the beginning of 425 BCE in supreme command by Pythodoros. The first Athenian expedition to Sicily ended badly. Upon Laches return to Athens he was prosecuted by
Cleon, but was acquitted of any wrong doing. His trial was satirized by
Aristophanes in his play
The Wasps.
In
423 BCE, Laches successfully moved in the
Athenian Assembly for an armistice with Sparta. However, it only lasted a year. But after Cleon died in
422 BCE, Laches together with Nicias was able to negotiate a slightly longer peace, the
Peace of Nicias. In
418 BCE the peace broke down because of Athens’s support for Spartan rebels. Laches was again appointed general and was killed in the Athenian’s disastrous defeat at the
Battle of Mantinea.
There was a later Laches who was
Archon 400-399 B.C.E., at the time of the death of
Socrates.
The Platonic dialogue
Laches features Laches as a stereotypical conservative general.
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