Herodotus' Histories

Ameinias

Family: Athenian · Role: individual man · First appears: Book 8 · §90–98

Book 8 · §90–98

  • with Artemisia (Ameinias pursued Artemisia and sought to capture her.) “Now if he had known that Artemisia was sailing in this ship, he would not have ceased until either he had taken her or had been taken himself; for orders had been given to the Athenian captains, and moreover a prize was offered of ten thousand drachmas for the man who should take her alive; since they thought it intolerable that a woman should make an expedition against Athens.”

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