Agias of Sparta

Agias (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγίας), the son of Agelochus and grand­son of Tisamenus of Elea, was the Spartan seer of Lysander, who predicted that general's victory at the battle of Aegospotami in 404 BC.Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Agias (1) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 71 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0080.html ] Some ancient writers considered Agias' prediction--that Lysander would capture the entire fleet except for ten triremes (which fled to Corcyra)--to have been the cause of the victory more than a mere prediction. [cite book | last = Halliday | first = W. R. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Greek Divination a Study of Its Methods and Principles | publisher = | date = 1913 | location = | pages = | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=FXIvGOYtaDkC | doi = | id = | isbn = ] Pausanias mentions seeing a bronze statue of Agias at the altar of Augustus in the marketplace in Sparta. [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" iii. 11. § 5] There was also a statue in Delphi of both Agias and Lysander, reputedly erected by Lysander, which has been partially recovered. [cite book | last = Flower | first = Michael Attyah | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Seer in Ancient Greece | publisher = University of California Press | date = 2007 | location = Berkeley | pages = 95 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=dhfuud8gQtAC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-520-25229-2]

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