Androsthenes of Thasos

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Androsthenes (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόσθενης) of Thasos, son of Callistratus, was one of the admirals of Alexander the Great. He sailed as a trierarch with Nearchus, and was also sent by Alexander down the Euphrates to explore the coast of the Persian Gulf, skirting the coast of Arabia in a triacontor and sailing farther than Archias of Pella.[1][2] He wrote an account of this voyage, and also a Τῆς Ἰνδικῆς παράπλους[3][4][5]

Notes

  1. Strabo x. p. 766
  2. Arrian, The Anabasis of Alexander vii. 20
  3. Athenaeus iii. p. 93, b.
  4. Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants ii. 5
  5. Gerardus Vossius, De Historicis Graecis p. 98, ed. Wessmann

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