Asopius (Ancient Greek: Ἀσώπιος) was the name of several men of Ancient Greece related to the 5th-century BCE Athenian general Phormio, and the events of the Peloponnesian War:
- Asopius, the father of Phormio.[1] The geographer Pausanias wrote that this man's name was "Asopichus" instead of "Asopius".[2] Nothing further is known of him.
- Asopius, the son of Phormio, and grandson of the above. This Asopius was, at the request of the Acarnanians who wanted someone from Phormio's family to be in the command, sent by the Athenians in the year following his father's naval victories, in 428 BCE (that is, the 4th year of the Peloponnesian War), with 30 ships to Laconia and thereafter to Naupactus. Asopius then sent 18 ships back to Athens, and continued on to raze Oeniadae with his remaining fleet, though the people of that city remained unbowed. Very shortly afterwards, he landed his ground forces on the Leucadian coast and attacked the city of Nericus. In retreat from that assault, Asopius and most of his forces were cut off by a numerically superior force of Leucadians and some coast guards, and were killed.[3][4][5][6][7][8]
References
edit- ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.64
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.24.12
- ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.7
- ^ Ray, Fred Eugene (2011). Land Battles in 5th Century BC Greece: A History and Analysis of 173 Engagements. McFarland. p. 161. ISBN 9780786452606.
- ^ Kagan, Donald (2013). The Archidamian War. Cornell University Press. p. 139. ISBN 9780801467226.
- ^ Bury, John Bagnell (1900). A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great. Macmillan and Company, limited. p. 419.
- ^ Laistner, Max Ludwig Wolfram (1968). A History of the Greek World from 479 to 323 B.C. Methuen Publishing. p. 93.
- ^ Thucydides (2008). Strassler, Robert B. (ed.). The Landmark Thucydides. Translated by Crawley, Richard. Free Press. pp. 161–162. ISBN 9781416590873.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Clough, Arthur Hugh (1870). "Asopius (1) and (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 386.