Abronychus

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Abronychus (Greek Αβρώνυχος) was the son of Lysicles, an Athenian, and was stationed at Thermopylae with a vessel to communicate between Leonidas and the fleet at Artemisium.[1] He was subse­quently sent as ambassador to Sparta with Themistocles and Aristeides respecting the fortifications of Athens after the Persian War.[2][3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Abronychus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 3 
  2. ^ Herodotus, Histories viii. 21
  3. ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War i. 91

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