Androsthenes of Thasos

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

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: William Smith (1870). "Androsthenes". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 176-177.