Ameinias of Athens

Ameinias (Gr. Ameinias of Athens) was a younger brother of the playwright Aeschylus, of the Attic deme of Pallene according to Herodotus, or of that of Decelea according to Plutarch, distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis, revenging the death of his brother Cynaegirus at Marathon, by making the first attack upon the Persian ships, and also by his pursuit of Artemisia.

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