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...
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of Narcissus Ameinias of Athens or Ameinias of Pallene (5th century BC), a Greek trireme commander in the Battle of Salamis, and younger brother of the...
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Green. Battle of Artemisium Battle of Salamis Themistocles Ameinias of Athens On the identification with Artemisia: "...Above the ships of the victorious...
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Greco-Persian Wars (redirect from Persian sack of Athens (480BC))
progressively drawing more regions of Asia Minor into the conflict. Aristagoras secured military support from Athens and Eretria, and in 498 BC these forces...
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playwright Alexis – sculptor, pupil of Polykleitos Alypius of Alexandria – music writer Ambryon – writer Ameinias of Athens - Athenian commander during the...
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Eponymous archon (redirect from Archons of Athens)
Classical Athens, a system of nine concurrent archons evolved, led by three respective remits over the civic, military, and religious affairs of the state:...
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Aeschylus (redirect from Eschylus Father of Tragedy)
brother Ameinias, against Xerxes I's invading forces at the Battle of Salamis. Aeschylus also fought at the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC. Ion of Chios was...
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Cynaegirus (category Battle of Marathon)
ancient Greek general of Athens and had three siblings. His two brothers were the playwright Aeschylus and Ameinias, hero of the battle of Salamis, while his...
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Amechania Ameinias of Athens Ameinocles Ameipsias Amentum Ammonius Saccas Amoebaean singing Amompharetus Ampersand Painter Amphiaraos Krater Amphiareion of Oropos...
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Classical Greece (redirect from Causes of the Peloponnesian War)
flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the Spartan and then Theban hegemonies; and the expansion of Macedonia under...
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Sicilian Expedition (redirect from Battle of Syracuse (415 BC))
impacting Athens. The expedition was hampered from the outset by uncertainty in its purpose and command structure—political maneuvering in Athens swelled...
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Artemisia, the Queen of Halicarnassus, and commander of the Carian contingent, found herself pursued by the ship of Ameinias of Pallene. In her desire...
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Archaic Greece (section Athens)
core of Greek armies. In Athens, the earliest institutions of democracy were implemented under Solon, and the reforms of Cleisthenes at the end of the...
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citizenship. The news of the victory itself was met with jubilation at Athens. Their joy was tempered, however, by the aftermath of the battle, in which...
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ingenuity. Pottery in ancient Greece was most often the work of slaves. Many of the potters of Athens assembled between the agora and the Dipylon, in the Kerameikon...
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considered Poseidon to be the "master of the sea". Given the importance to Athens of trade by sea and the significance of its navy in its creation and survival...
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Piraeus (redirect from Mayor of Piraeus)
within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located eight kilometres (5 mi) southwest of Athens' city centre...
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Cyzicus, which ended the immediate Spartan threat to Athens' Black Sea lifeline. In the wake of Athens' defeat in the Sicilian Expedition in 413, a small...
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Ancient Greek warfare (redirect from Military of ancient Greece)
the Greeks was achieved by alliances of many city-states, on a scale and scope never seen before. The rise of Athens and Sparta during this conflict led...
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coast of Euboea and was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and others, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I...
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The Battle of the Eurymedon was a double battle, taking place both on water and land, between the Delian League of Athens and her Allies, and the Persian...
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Antigonus II Gonatas (redirect from Antigonus II of Macedon)
and sent one of his mercenary commanders, Ameinias the Phocian, to negotiate with Apollodorus. During the negotiations Ameinias had 2,000 of his men launch...
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Sea Peoples (redirect from Peoples of the Sea)
The Sea Peoples were a group of tribes hypothesized to have attacked Egypt and other Eastern Mediterranean regions around 1200 BC during the Late Bronze...
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Trireme (category Navy of ancient Athens)
aegis of Athens. Gradually, the predominance of Athens turned the League effectively into an Athenian Empire. The source and foundation of Athens' power...
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The Battle of Mytilene was fought in 406 BC between Athens and Sparta. The Spartans were victorious. Shortly after the Battle of Notium, the Spartan Callicratidas...
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island of Samos. The battle was fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens and Corinth, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes...
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he had in the previous year overthrown the garrison installed in Athens by the ruler of Macedon, Cassander. The city, along with neighbouring Megara, was...
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Cynaegirus, hero of the battle of Marathon, and Ameinias, hero of the battle of Salamis. The Suda claims that Philocles was the father of the tragic playwright...
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Tyre, Lebanon (redirect from City of Tyre)
scholarch (head) of the Peripatetic school of Athens Antipater of Tyre (1st century BCE), Stoic philosopher Adrianus, a sophist Apollonius of Tyre (philosopher)...
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poetry of Sappho, Aphrodite is identified as the patron of lesbians. Achilles and Patroclus Achilles and Troilus Agamemnon and Argynnus Ameinias and Narcissus...
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