Editing Lysander (section)

==Legacy==
Lysander is one of the main protagonists of the history of Greece by Xenophon, a contemporary. For other (later) sources he remains an ambiguous figure. For instance, while the Roman biographer [[Cornelius Nepos]] charges him with "cruelty and perfidy",<ref name="lys-nepos"/> Lysander &ndash; according to Xenophon &ndash; nonetheless spared the population of captured Greek [[Polis|poleis]] such as [[Lampsacus]].<ref name="lys-xen"/>

The [[Westland Lysander]] aircraft was named after him.

===Commemoration===
According to [[Duris of Samos]], Lysander was the first Greek to whom the cities erected altars and sacrificed to him as to a god and the Samians voted that their festival of Hera should be called Lysandreia.<ref>''The Hellenistic World'' by Frank William Walbank Page 213 {{ISBN|0-674-38726-0}}</ref> He was also the first Greek who had songs of triumph written about him.<ref name="lys-lives" />

===Sayings attributed to Lysander===
* "Where the lion's skin does not reach, it must be patched with the fox's".<ref name="lys-lives"/>
* He boasted about cheating "boys with knuckle-bones and men with oaths".<ref name="lys-lives"/>