Ameinias or Aminias (Ancient Greek: Ἀμεινίας) was a younger brother of the playwright Aeschylus and of a hero of the battle of Marathon named Cynaegirus.
[3] According to Diodorus Siculus, Ameinias was the first to ram the flagship of the Persians, sinking it and killing the admiral.
Moreover, a prize had been offered of ten thousand drachmas for the man who should take her alive, since they thought it intolerable that a woman should lead an expedition against Athens.
[6] In addition, according to Plutarch, Ameinias and the Socles of Pallene were the men who killed Ariamenes (Herodotus says that his name was Ariabignes), brother of Xerxes and admiral of the Persian navy.
[8] Aelian mentions that Ameinias prevented the condemnation of his brother Aeschylus by the Areopagus.