Pisindelis

Pisindelis (Ancient Greek: Πισίνδηλις), ruled c.460–450 BCE, was a tyrant of Caria, from its capital Halicarnassus, under the Achaemenid Empire.

[1][2] He was said to be a young man already at the time his mother Artemisia fought at the head of the Carian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (479 BCE) under King Xerxes I.

[3] He is mentioned by Herodotus as he described the involvement of his mother at Salamis: Artemisia, who moves me to marvel greatly that a woman should have gone with the armament against Hellas; for her husband being dead, she herself had his sovereignty and a young son withal, and followed the host under no stress of necessity, but of mere high-hearted valour.

The cities, whereof I said she was the leader, are all of Dorian stock, as I can show, the Halicarnassians being of Troezen, and the rest of Epidaurus.He probably had to abandon his throne around 452-449 BCE.

[3] His son was Lygdamis II, last tyrant of the Lygdamid dynasty, before Caria joined the Athenian alliance of the Delian League for about 50 years.