Tetramnestos

{{Short description|5th-century BC Phoenician king}}

Tetramnestos (ruled {{Circa}} 480 – 479 BCE) was, according to Herodotus, a King of Sidon who assisted the Achaemenid Emperor Xerxes I in the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BCE.{{cite journal |last1=Kelly |first1=Thomas |title=Herodotus and the Chronology of the Kings of Sidon |journal=Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |date=1 November 1987 |volume=268 |issue=268 |pages=42–43 |doi=10.2307/1356993 |jstor=1356993 |s2cid=163208310 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/1356993 |issn=0003-097X}}{{cite journal |last1=Elayi |first1=Josette |title=The Role of the Phoenician Kings at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.E.) |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |date=2006 |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=411–418 |jstor=20064517 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20064517 |issn=0003-0279}} Specifically, he is said to have served as the chief advisor of Xerxes in naval matters. In effect, the Sidon fleet held a position of primacy among the naval forces of the Achaemenid Empire at that time, providing the best ships in the fleet, superior even to the fleet of Artemisia of Halicarnassus. The Phoenicians furnished a fleet of 300 ships, "together with the Syrians of Palestine".