Ameinias of Athens
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Ameinias of Athens
Ameinias (Gr. Ἀμεινίας) was a younger brother of the playwright Aeschylus, of the Attic deme of Pallene according to Herodotus,[1] or of that of Decelea according to Plutarch,[2] distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis, revenging the death of his brother Cynaegirus at Marathon, by making the first attack upon the Persian ships, and also by his pursuit of Artemisia. He and Eumenes were judged to have been the bravest on this occasion among all the Athenians.[3] Aelian mentions that Ameinias prevented the condemnation of his brother Aeschylus by the Areopagus.[4][5]
References
- ^ Herodotus, Histories viii. 84, 93
- ^ Plutarch, Themistocles 14
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica xi. 27
- ^ Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia v. 19
- ^ Smith, William (1867). "Ameinias". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 141. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0150.html.
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