Lysander is one of the main characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a comedy by English playwright William Shakespeare. Lysander loves Hermia but her father, Egeus, refuses to let them marry ...

In 407 the Spartans made Lysander the chief general of their forces. Like Alcibiades he was a man of exceptional gifts, but unlike him he renounced all luxury, pleasure and show, unless it served ...