Menoitios (Admiral)
Menoitios ( Greek Μενοίτιος ) was a naval officer of Alexander the great in the 4th century BC.
334 BC Menoitios was honored with a golden wreath by Alexander for his service as helmsman ( κυβερνήτης , kybernetes ) in Troy . Apparently he had navigated the king's ship across the Hellespont . He was probably identical with the naval commander of the same name ( ναύαρχος , naúarchos ), who was in the service of the Ptolemies in the sea battle of Salamis in 306 BC. Occurred. Here he managed to break out of the port of Salamis with 60 ships , which was blocked by a squadron of Demetrios Poliorketes . However, he came too late for the decisive naval battle in which Ptolemy I was defeated by Demetrios.
literature
- Waldemar Heckel : Who's who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander's empire . Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9 , p. 166.
- Willy Peremans, Edmond Van't Dack: Prosopographia Ptolemaica V: La commerce et l'industrie, le transport sur terre et la flotte, la domesticité (Nos 12460-14478). In: Studia Hellenistica. Vol. 13, No. 13775, Löwen 1963.
Remarks
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menoitios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Μενοίτιος |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Naval officer of Alexander the Great and the Ptolemies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |