Judged to have been the bravest (together with Eumenes) among all the Athenians at the battle of Salamis.
Relations
Aeschylus (brother)
Cynaegirus (brother)
Euphorion (father)
Philopatho (sister)
Philocles (nephew)
Ameinias or Aminias (Ancient Greek: Ἀμεινίας) was a younger brother of the playwright Aeschylus and of a hero of the battle of Marathon named Cynaegirus. He also had a sister, named Philopatho, who was the mother of the Athenian tragic poet Philocles. His father was Euphorion. Ameinias was from the Attica deme of Pallene according to Herodotus,[1] or of that of Decelea according to Plutarch.[2] He distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis as a trireme commander. His brother Aeschylus also fought at the battle.[3]
According to Diodorus Siculus, Ameinias was the first to ram the flagship of the Persians, sinking it and killing the admiral.[4] Herodotus writes that Athenians said that Ameinias charged one of the enemy vessels and his ship was entangled in combat and his men were not being able to get away, so the other Greek ships joined in the fight to assist Ameinias and this is how the battle started, but the Aeginetans say that one of their ships was the first to attack the Persian fleet.[5]
He also pursued the ship of Artemisia, and she escaped by ramming and sinking the ship of her ally Damasithymos. When Ameinias saw that he thought that her ship was Greek and he changed the direction of his Trireme to chase other Persian ships.
Herodotus believed that Ameinias didn't know that Artemisia was on the ship because otherwise he would not have ceased his pursuit until either he had captured her or had been captured himself because orders had been given to the Athenian captains. Moreover, a prize had been offered of ten thousand drachmas for the man who should take her alive, since they thought it intolerable that a woman should lead an expedition against Athens.[6]
In addition, according to Plutarch, Ameinias and the Socles of Pallene were the men who killed Ariamenes (Herodotus says that his name was Ariabignes), brother of Xerxes and admiral of the Persian navy. When Ariamenes attempted to board their ship, they hit him with their spears and thrust him into the sea.[7]
Ameinias and Eumenes of Anagyrus were judged to have been the bravest on this occasion among all the Athenians.[8] Aelian mentions that Ameinias prevented the condemnation of his brother Aeschylus by the Areopagus.[9][10]
^Herodotus, Histories viii. 84, 93
^Plutarch, Themistocles 14
^ANONYMOUS LIFE OF AESCHYLUS, § 4
^Diodorus Siculus, Library, 11.27
^Herodotus, 8.84
^Herodotus Book 8: Urania, 93 "Now if he had known that Artemisia was sailing on this ship, he would not have ceased until either he had taken her or had been taken himself; for orders had been given to the Athenian captains, and moreover a prize was offered of ten thousand drachmas for the man who should take her alive; since they thought it intolerable that a woman should make an expedition against Athens."
^Themistocles By Plutarch "Ariamenes, admiral to Xerxes, a brave man and by far the best and worthiest of the king's brothers was seen throwing darts and shooting arrows from his huge galley, as from the walls of a castle. Aminias the Decelean and Sosicles the Pedian (This is wrong translation his name was Socles and he was from Palene), who sailed in the same vessel, upon the ships meeting stem to stem, and transfixing each the other with their brazen prows, so that they were fastened together, when Ariamenes attempted to board theirs, ran at him with their pikes, and thrust him into the sea..."
^Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica xi. 27
^Claudius Aelianus, Varia Historia v. 19
^Smith, William (1867). "Ameinias". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 141. Archived from the original on 2010-11-20. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
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