ANTALCIDAS (an-tal-ke-das), Spartan soldier and diplo matist. In 393 (or 392) B.C. he was sent to Tiribazus, satrap of Sardis, to undermine the friendly relations then existing between Athens and Persia by offering to recognize Persian claims to the whole of Asia Minor. The Athenians sent a counter-embassy under Conon. Tiribazus, who was favourable to Sparta, threw Conon into prison, but Artaxerxes II. (Mnemon) disapproved and re called his satrap. In 388 B.C. Antalcidas, then commander of the Spartan fleet, accompanied Tiribazus to the Persian court and secured the assistance of Persia against Athens. The success of his naval operations in the neighbourhood of the Hellespont was such that Athens glad to accept terms of peace (the "Peace of Antalcidas"), by which (I) the whole of Asia Minor, with the islands of Clazomenae and Cyprus, was recognized as subject to Persia, (2) all other Greek cities—so far as they were not under Persian rule—were to be independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which were to belong, as formerly, to the Athenians. The terms were announced to the Greek envoys at Sardis in the winter 387-386, and were finally accepted by Sparta in 386 B.C. Antalcidas continued in favour with Artaxerxes until the annihila tion of Spartan supremacy at Leuctra diminished his influence. A final mission to Persia, probably in 367 B.C., was a failure, and Antalcidas, deeply chagrined and fearful of the consequences, is said to have starved himself to death. (See SPARTA.)