Aeimnestus

Aeimnestus in Wikipedia

* Aeimnestus (Gr. Ἀείμνηστος) was the Spartan soldier who killed the Persian general Mardonius by hurling a boulder onto Mardonius' head during the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, as told in book 9 of the Histories of Herodotus[1]. Plutarch calls the same man "Arimnestus" (Ἀρίμνηστος).[2] * Another Spartan by the same name had led three hundred men ...

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