Panares ( grc, Πανάρης) was a
Greek general (''
strategos
''Strategos'', plural ''strategoi'', Linguistic Latinisation, Latinized ''strategus'', ( el, στρατηγός, pl. στρατηγοί; Doric Greek: στραταγός, ''stratagos''; meaning "army leader") is used in Greek language, Greek to ...
'') of the ancient
Cretan city of
Kydonia in 69 BC at the time when the
Romans attacked the city.
Kydonia had aligned itself with the interests of pirates and incurred the anger of the
Roman Senate. The Romans commissioned the praetor
Marcus Antonius
Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autoc ...
to take care of the
Pirate Problem in the
Mediterranean. In 69 BC, he besieged Kydonia. When the Romans vanquished Kydonia, Panares surrendered the city, while his fellow strategos,
Lasthenes, fled to
Knossos.
[Hogan, 2008]
References
Citations
Sources
*Appianus of Alexandria and Horace White. ''The Roman History of Appian of Alexandria'', Macmillan Company, 1899.
*Hogan, C. Michael.
Cydonia. ''Modern Antiquarian'', January 23, 2008.
*Mommsen, Theodor and William Purdie Dickson (trans.). ''The History of Rome'', 1894.
1st-century BC Greek people
Ancient Cretan generals
Roman Crete
Ancient Greek pirates
Ancient Cydonians
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