Lysander ( or ; died 395 BCE, ,
Lýsandros) was a
Spartan admiral who commanded the Spartan fleet in the
Hellespont which defeated the
Athenians at
Aegospotami in 405 BCE. The following year, he was able to force the Athenians to capitulate, bringing the
Peloponnesian War to an end; he organized the dominion of Sparta over Greece in the last decade of his life.