BATTLE OF ARGINUSAE

For a long while, Athens had rested its hopes for a successful war on Alcibiades, the notorious but undeniably talented general who had led the Athenian fleet to victories at Abydos in 411 BCE and Cyzicus in 410 BCE. But a disobedient underling lost Alcibiades a battle at Notium in 406 BCE, and also cost him his job. Dismissed by the Athenians, who sought a scapegoat for the defeat, he was replaced by Conon as fleet commander.

Conon conducted naval raids on Peloponnesian territories, and meanwhile, the Spartans sent out a replacement navarch (admiral) named Callicratidas to take over the Peloponnesian fleet based at