Chremonides

Chremonides (Greek Χρεμωνίδης ), son of Eteocles from the Deme Aithalidai the tribe Leontis, was a statesman of ancient Athens in the third century BC

Chremonides was friends with the philosopher Zeno. He became known in the Archon Peithidemos ( 268/7 BC) as the author of a decree, which sealed the alliance between Athens and Sparta and Areus I. Ptolemy II of Egypt, Antigonus II Gonatas against the king of Macedon, from which the named after him Chremonideische war ( 267-261 BC) resulted. In this decree Chremonides Antigonus Gonatas characterized the descendants of those who had once Greek states want to enslave; the Greeks would have united to fight for their freedom. Athens lost the war Chremonidean, was occupied by Macedonian troops and lost its power-political importance.

After the military defeat Chremonides fled with his brother Glaucon to Egypt where he performed as a counselor in the service of Ptolemy II as fleet commander ( nauarchos ) he commanded a Ptolemaic fleet, with which he, however, in a battle at the Temenos of Aphrodite before Ephesus from a Rhodian fleet was defeated under Agathostratos. The temporal allocation of this battle is moderate source can not be determined and therefore a discussion point in the history of science.

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