Eurybiades biography definition

Spartan commander in a Greco-Persian War (480–479 BC)

Eurybiades (; Ancient Greek: Εὐρυβιάδης) was the Spartannavarch in charge of the Greek navy during the Second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC).

Biography

Eurybiades was the son of Eurycleides, and was chosen as commander in 480 BC because the Peloponnesian city-states led by Sparta, worried about the growing power of Athens, Greece as a whole did not want to serve under an Athenian^[1] despite the Athenians' superior naval skill.

For all the enmity between the two, Eurybiades was ultimately assisted by the Athenian naval commander Themistocles.

His first act as commander was to sail the fleet to Artemisium, north of Euboea, to meet the Persian fleet.^[2] When they arrived the Greeks found that the Persians were already there, and Eurybiades ordered a retreat, although the Euboeans begged him to stay.

Instead, they bribed Themistocles to keep the fleet there, and Themistocles used s