Alexamenus of Aetolia | |
Rank: | General |
Battles: | War against Nabis |
Alexamenus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀλεξαμενός), a general of the Aetolians in 196 BC, who was sent by the Aetolians in 192 during the War against Nabis, to obtain possession of Lacedaemon.[1] He succeeded in his object, and killed Nabis, the tyrant of Lacedaemon, but the Lacedaemonians rising against him shortly after, he and most of his troops were killed.[2] [3]