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Xanthippus is credited with the Carthaginian deployment, with a hastily raised phalanx of civilians in the centre, mercenary infantry on their right and a line of elephants in front of the infantry, with the elite Carthaginian cavalry split between the two flanks.
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Xanthippus and is
It is probable that in early 479 BC, Themistocles was stripped of his command ; instead, Xanthippus was to command the Athenian fleet, and Aristides the land forces.
However, the expedition is unsuccessful and, on his return, he is fined in a prosecution led by Xanthippus and put in prison where he dies of wounds received at Paros.
* The Athenian general and statesman, Xanthippus, is ostracised.
Xanthippus is credited with the Carthaginian formation, cavalry split between the two wings, mercenary infantry on their right, with a hastily raised phalanx of civilians in the centre and a line of elephants in front of the infantry, which defeated the Romans formed in their normal formation, with the outnumbered cavalry on the wings and legionary infantry in the centre.
There is a report of a Xanthippus being made governor of a newly acquired province by Ptolemy Euergetes of Egypt in 245 BC.
Xanthippus and with
In response, the Athenian navy under Xanthippus joined with the Allied fleet off Delos.
Anacreon was for a long time popular at Athens, where his statue was to be seen on the Acropolis, together with that of his friend Xanthippus, the father of Pericles.
Xanthippus and Carthaginian
Xanthippus defeated the Roman army and captured Regulus at the Battle of Tunis, and then managed to cut off what remained of the Roman army from its base by re-establishing Carthaginian naval supremacy.
The revitalised Carthaginian army, led by Xanthippus, decisively defeat the Romans in the Battle of Tunis and capture their commander Marcus Atilius Regulus.
Xanthippus and mercenary
The terms were so heavy that negotiations failed and, in response, the Carthaginians hired Xanthippus, a Spartan mercenary, to reorganize the army.
* Xanthippus, mercenary in the service of Carthage
* The Carthaginians, angered by Regulus ' demands, hire Xanthippus, a Spartan mercenary, to reorganize the army.
Xanthippus ( Gr. ) was a Greek ( possibly Spartan ) mercenary general hired by the Carthaginians to aid in their war against the Romans during the First Punic War.
The mercenary general Xanthippus was hired by the city of Carthage following heavy-handed negotiations by Rome.
Xanthippus and on
Jealous of Xanthippus ' success, the city betrayed him by giving him a leaky ship and he supposedly sank in the Adriatic Sea on his voyage home.
Xanthippus and their
* 255 BC: The Carthaginians employ a Spartan general, Xanthippus, to organize their defenses and defeat the Romans at the Battle of Tunis.
Xanthippus and two
It was possible for the assembly to recall an ostracised person ahead of time ; before the Persian invasion of 479 BC, an amnesty was declared under which at least two ostracised leaders — Pericles ' father Xanthippus and Aristides ' the Just '— are known to have returned.
These two numbers can be reconciled by assuming that Leotychides had 110 triremes under his command before being joined by Xanthippus and the Athenian ships, after the Allied army had marched out from the Peloponnesus.
Xanthippus and .
Xanthippus, the Athenian commander at Mycale, had furiously rejected this ; the Ionian cities were originally Athenian colonies, and the Athenians, if no-one else, would protect the Ionians.
** Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychidas of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens in the Battle of Mycale, off the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor.
* The Athenian soldier and statesman, Aristides, as well as the former Athenian archon Xanthippus, return from banishment in Aegina to serve under Themistocles against the Persians.
Xanthippus however vehemently objected to this, since the Ionian cities were originally Greek colonies.
In 479BC-478BC, after the Greek victories ( against Persia ) at Plataea and Mycale, Greek forces under the command of Xanthippus besieged and defeated the Persian garrison at Sestos allowing the Greeks to conquer the city.
However, soon after, any citizen judged to have too much power in the city tended to be targeted for exile ( e. g. Xanthippus in 485 / 84 BC ).
Xanthippus, the Athenian commander at Mycale, had furiously rejected this ; the Ionian cities were originally Athenian colonies, and the Athenians, if no-one else, would protect the Ionians.
Diodorus gives an account of Xanthippus ' death.
After the battle of Tunis, Xanthippus stopped in the city of Lilybaeum which was besieged by the Romans.
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