102 Livin' on a (Persian) Prayer
The History of Ancient Greece
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The Battle of Syme
Asiokis's left flank was the only part of his fleet present at the moment, so Charminus assumed that this was all of the enemy's forces. The Athenians managed to sink three Pelopnesian ships and disabled several others in what historians call the Battle of Syme. It was a moral victory for Asiokis and a humiliating defeat for Charminus. After the two fleets met up and merged at Kannidus, they found that the remaining 54 Athenian ships, Samos, had combined with those 14 of Charminus at Halocarnassus. Their combined number was 68 Triremes; although AsiokIs still had a numerical advantage with
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