Aeimnestus

Aeimnestus (Gr. Ἀείμνηστος) is an Ancient Greek word, also spelled aeímnēstos and arímnēstos that means "unforgettable", literally "of everlasting memory". It was the name of multiple revered Greek warriors.

A Spartan soldier Aeimnestus killed the Persian general Mardonius by crushing Mardonius' head with a rock during the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC. The event was described in Book 9 of the Histories of Herodotus.[1] Plutarch calls the same man "Arimnestus" (Ἀρίμνηστος).[2]

Another Spartan by the same name led three hundred men against the whole Messenian army in the Messenian Wars; both he and his company were killed to the last man.[3]

A Plataean general Arimnestos led his city's host in the battles of Marathon and Plataea.

Notes

  1. ↑ Herodotus, Histories, ix. 64
  2. ↑ Plutarch, Aristides 19
  3. ↑ Smith, William (1867). "Aeimnestus". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston. p. 27. Archived from the original on 2007-09-06.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aeimnestus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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