Ameinias
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Ameinias of Pallene · Aminias of Pallene
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The Histories (Greek)
The rest of the Hellenes began to back water and tried to beach their ships, but Ameinias of Pallene, an Athenian, charged and rammed a ship.
in the texts
On the Choreutes
A trustworthy member of the Erechtheid tribe, officially chosen to recruit and supervise its choruses, appointed by the defendant as one of the chorus's overseers.
The first, Ameinias, whom I thought a trustworthy man, belonged to the Erechtheid tribe and had been officially chosen by it to recruit and supervise its choruses at the various festivals;
Against Boeotus II
Associate of the speaker in collecting mercenaries during military service.
In addition to all this, on the charge that, when I was on military service and had collected mercenaries with Ameinias (seeing that I was well-provided with funds from other sources, and had collected from Mytilene from your proxenus Apollonides and the friends of our city three hundred Phocaic staters, and had spent that sum upon these troops, in order that a matter might be prosecuted which was …
The Histories
Athenian captain credited by the Athenians with initiating the fighting at Salamis and later named among the battle's most courageous individuals.
The rest of the Hellenes began to back water and tried to beach their ships, but Ameinias of Pallene, an Athenian, charged and rammed a ship.
Among individuals they were Polycritus the Aeginetan and the Athenians Eumenes of Anagyrus and Aminias of Pallene, the one who pursued Artemisia.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Lacedaemonian commissioned alongside Isagoras and Aristeus to inspect Brasidas's cities.
Isagoras, however, Ameinias, and Aristeus, themselves came to Brasidas, being commissioned by the Lacedaemonians to inspect the state of affairs;