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The Battle of Salamis (/ ˈ s æ l ə m ɪ s / SAL-ə-miss) was a naval battle fought in 480 BC, between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles, and the Achaemenid Empire under King Xerxes. It resulted in a victory for the outnumbered Greeks.
In the Battle of Salamis of September 480 BC, he gave loyal support to Themistocles, and crowned the victory by landing Athenian infantry on the island of Psyttaleia and annihilating the Persian garrison stationed there. [3] Aristides warned by Alexander I of Macedon of the impending Persian attack at the Battle of Plataea, 479 BC
The ensuing battle was a complete victory for Demetrius, who destroyed or captured much of Ptolemy's fleet and army. After the battle, Menelaus and his men surrendered, and the rest of Cyprus was captured by Demetrius. In the wake of this victory, Antigonus assumed the royal title that had been vacant since the murder of Alexander's underage ...
Cimon was born into Athenian nobility in 510 BC. He was a member of the Philaidae clan, from the deme of Laciadae (Lakiadai). His grandfather was Cimon Coalemos, who won three Olympic victories with his four-horse chariot and was assassinated by the sons of Peisistratus. [2]
Plutarch calls him, Ariamenes [pronunciation?] (Ἀριαμένης), [5] and speaks of him as a brave man and the most just of the brothers of Xerxes. The same writer relates [6] that this Ariamenes [7] laid claim to the throne on the death of Darius, as the eldest of his sons, but was opposed by Xerxes, who maintained that he had a right to the crown as the eldest of the sons born after ...
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.
Salamis Island in the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, near Athens, Greece Salamina (city), former municipality on Salamis Island; Salamis Naval Base, a Greek naval base on Salamis Island; Battle of Salamis, 480 BC, between allied Greeks and Achaemenid Persian empire; Salamis, Cyprus or Constantia, an ancient city in Cyprus
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