Dorieus (Rhodes)

Dorieus ( Greek  Δωριεύς , * around 450 BC; † 395 BC ), the youngest son of Diagoras of Rhodes , was a famous ancient athlete . It came from the house of the Eratids from the city of Ialysos on Rhodes , which was traced back to Tlepolemos , the son of Heracles . After his successful sports career, he became a fleet commander .

See also : Diagoras (family)

Victories

Dorieus succeeded in 432 BC. BC, 428 BC BC and 424 BC So three times in a row to win the Olympic Games in Pankration . He also won eight times in the Isthmian Games and seven times in the Nemean Games . He is also said to have won the Pythian Games once without a fight. (If there were no other participants for a competition, a single athlete won without a fight.) However, he and Peisirodos took part in the games as Thurier , since they had been driven from Rhodes by their opponents. He later returned to his homeland. Like his father and his brothers Akusilaos and Damagetos, a statue was dedicated to him in Olympia .

Peloponnesian War

During the Peloponnesian War , Dorieus fought on the side of the Spartans against Athens . In the winter of 412 BC Together with Hippocrates he commanded an expedition to Knidos , which was conquered by Tissaphernes for the Laconians. They had twelve triremes , ten thurische , a laconic and a Syracusan . While one half was stationed in Knidos, the other half camped on the Triopion promontory and was supposed to intercept cargo ships from Egypt on their way to Athens. When the Athenians found out about this, they sent warships from Samos . First they captured the ships on the foothills. The crew fled to the city. Before they could reach the unfortified city, however, the Athenians attacked Knidos. They almost succeeded in taking the city. Overnight, they built a parapet and held off a second attack. However, the opponents devastated the country before withdrawing. A short time later, when the men’s wages were not paid on time, Dorieus approached the Spartan Admiral Astyochos and demanded the outstanding wages for them. When the general raised his staff against Dorieus, he was almost lynched by the fighters for it.

411 BC Dorieus was sent by the Commander-in-Chief Mindaros with 13 ships to Rhodes in order to nip an uprising in the bud. When he had successfully completed this task, he went to the Hellespont the following year . As he drove past Sigeion , the Athenians spotted him and sent 74 ships from Sestos to pursue them. Dorieus fled to Dardanos from such overwhelming odds . Xenophon, on the other hand, names the city of Rhoiteion as a destination. The Athenians kept course for the city. Dorieus came to the aid of the garrison stationed in the city. Mindaros, who was just in Ilion , immediately set off with his 84 ships. There was a great sea ​​battle that lasted all day. When Alcibiades finally brought reinforcements to the Athenians, the Spartans fled to Abydos . Here there was another battle in which the Athenians captured 30 ships, although the Spartans came to the aid of the cavalry of Pharnabazos .

During the siege of Andros , Phanosthenes conquered in 407 BC. Two Thurian ships and took the crew prisoner together with their commander Dorieus, who had already been sentenced to death in absentia. The prisoners were taken to Athens, but they shied away from executing the famous Olympian and released him.

Later Konon succeeded in winning the Rhodians over to the Athenian side, and since the Spartans suspected that Dorieus was to blame for the change of heart of his compatriots, he was arrested and executed.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War , 3, 8.
2. ^ Pausanias , Journeys in Greece , 6, 7, 1 and 4-6.
3. ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War , 8, 35.
4. ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War , 8, 84.
5. ↑ Diodor , Bibliotheke historike , 13, 38, 5-6.
6. ↑ Diodor, Bibliotheke historike , 13, 45, 1–10.
7. ↑ Xenophon, Hellenica , 1, 1, 2.
8. ↑ Xenophon, Hellenica , 1, 5, 19.
9. ^ Pausanias, Journeys in Greece , 6, 7, 5-6.