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Δαμασίθυμος candaules -lrb- el Κανδαύλης -rrb- 480 bc salamis island calyndos lat long inline , title -- > king of calyndos 5th century bc damasithymos
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damasithymos

damasithymos -lrb- ; fl .
early 5th century bc -rrb- was the king of calyndos -lrb- -rrb- , a city in ancient caria .
his father was candaules -lrb- -rrb- .
herodotus , in the seventh and eighth books of his ` histories ' entitled polymnia -lrb- book vii -rrb- and urania -lrb- book viii -rrb- , and polyaenus , in the eighth book of his work ` stratagems ' , mention him .
damasithymos was an ally of xerxes i at the second persian invasion of greece .
he fought at the naval battle of artemisium and the naval battle of salamis in 480 bc .
he participated as commander of the only calyndian ship in the persian navy .
he was killed during the battle of salamis .
his ship , together with ships from halicarnassus , cos and nisyros , were under the command of artemisia .
artemisia 's fleet , including damasithymos ' ship , had among the best regarded in the whole persian fleet , next to the ships from sidon .
herodotus mentions that damasithymos was one of the most noted of the men commanding the persian ships .
he was killed at the battle of salamis when artemisia rammed his ship , although they were allies , because it is said that she wanted to escape from an athenian ship under the command of ameinias who was pursuing her .
damasithymos ' ship sank and he and all his crew were lost when xerxes saw artemisia sink damasithymos ' ship , he thought that she had sunk a greek ship and , according to herodotus , he said : `` my men have become women , and my women men . ''
but , according to polyaenus , he said : `` o zeus , surely you have formed women out of man 's materials , and men out of woman 's . ''
according to herodotus , artemisia had previously had a disagreement with damasithymos while they were in the hellespont .
`` now , even though it be true that she had had some strife with him before , while they were still about the hellespont , yet i am not able to say whether she did this by intention , or whether the calyndian ship happened by chance to fall in her way . ''
