Asonides

Family: Greek · Role: master of an Eginetan ship · First appears: Book 7 · §177–186

Life events

• Pytheas was badly wounded fighting aboard Asonides’s captured ship, but the Persians saved his life.(Book 7 · §177–186)
  • With: Pytheas Ischenoös
  • “the Persians who served as fighting-men on board the ships, because of his valour used all diligence to save his life”
• The other captives taken aboard Asonides’s ship were treated as slaves.(Book 7 · §177–186)
  • With: Pytheas Ischenoös
  • “but the rest whom they had taken in this ship they treated as slaves”

Book 7 · §177–186

• with Pytheas (Asonides was master of the ship on which Pytheas served as a fighting-man.) “The ship of Egina however, of which Asonides was master, even gave them some trouble to capture it, seeing that Pytheas the son of Ischenoös served as a fighting-man on board of her”

Also listed in Greek — Minor Figures

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