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AIDEEN CARTY

Aeaces succeeded his father, SYLOSON, as a Persian‐backed TYRANT of SAMOS, and participated in the Scythian expedition of DARIUS I c. 514 BCE (4.138). He was ousted from power at the start of the IONIAN REVOLT (c. 499), but was reinstated after persuading the majority of the Samian contingent to withdraw from the Battle of LADE in 494 (6.13–14). As a result of this withdrawal, Samos alone suffered no reprisals from the Persians in the revolt’s aftermath (6.25.1). In protest against Aeaces’ restoration, some of the wealthier Samians emigrated to ZANCLE in SICILY (6.22). Aeaces had died or been removed from power by 480, when XERXES, after the Battle of SALAMIS, appointed THEOMESTOR as tyrant of Samos (8.85.3). A nephew of the tyrant and thalassocrat POLYCRATES, Aeaces appears to have been named after his grandfather, who was commemorated for donating booty at the HERAION on Samos (IG XII.6.ii.561 = ML 16).

SEE ALSO: Aeaces father of Polycrates; Ionians