Charitimides (Ancient Greek: Χαριτιμίδης) (died 455 BCE) was an Athenianadmiral of the 5th century BCE. At the time of the Wars of the Delian League, a continuing conflict between the Athenian-led Delian League of Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire, he was sent in 460 BCE to Egypt in command of a fleet of triremes (some authors say 40 ships, others 200 ships) to support Inaros II, an Egyptian ruler initially based in Libya who was leading a revolt against the Achaemenid rule over the country.[1][2]
The fleet of Charitimides was initially part of the Cyprus expedition led by Cimon.Main actions of the Egyptian campaign of the Wars of the Delian League, to which Charitimides participated.
Biographyedit
Charitimides' fleet had been operating on the coasts of Cyprus, from where he was diverted to Egypt.[3] He led his fleet against the Achaemenids in the Nile river, and defeated a fleet of 50 Phoenician ships.[4][5] It was the last great naval encounter between the Greeks and the Achaemenids.[5][6] Of the 50 Phoenician ships, he managed to destroy thirty while capturing the remainder.[6]
When the Achaemenids returned with a large army under Megabyzus, they lifted the siege of Memphis where the remaining Persian garrison had been blockaded, and then besieged the Egyptians and their Greek allies in the Siege of Prosopitis in 455 BCE.[3] Charitimides perished in the battle .[6]
Greek generals who later fought for the Egyptians include Chabrias and Agesilaus.[7]
^Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Richard Crawley (trans.). 1.104. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
^Diodorus Siculus (1946). Library of History. Vol. 4. C. H. Oldfather (trans.). Loeb Classical Library. 11.71.3-6. ISBN978-0-674-99413-3. Retrieved 10 September 2010.
^ abVasunia, Phiroze (2001). The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander. University of California Press. p. 26. ISBN9780520228207.
^G. (Gaston), Maspero (1900). The Passing of the Empires: 850 B.C. to 330 B.C. D. Appleton & Company. p. 731.
^ abCorby, Gary (2016). The Singer from Memphis. Soho Press. pp. 289–290. ISBN9781616956691.
^ abcFornara, Charles W.; Badian, E.; Sherk, Robert K. (1983). Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge University Press. p. 74. ISBN9780521299466.
^Vasunia, Phiroze (2001). The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander. University of California Press. p. 27. ISBN9780520228207.
January 01, 1970
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