Itamenes
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Leader, aided by barbarian forces, who captures the upper city of Colophon after being called in by a Colophonian faction.
As he coasted along on his return, he touched, amongst other places, at Notium, [the port] of the Colophonians, where they had settled after the capture of the upper city by Itamenes and the barbarians, who had been called in by individuals on the ground of a factious quarrel.
Anabasis
Commander who comes to assist Asidates' defenders with his force.
Then, as the result of their shouting and lighting of beacon fires, there came to their assistance Itamenes with his own force, and from Comania Assyrian hoplites and Hyrcanian horsemen—these also being mercenaries in the service of the King—to the number of eighty, as well as about eight hundred peltasts, and more from Parthenium, and more from Apollonia and from the near-by places, including horsemen.