Militiades Flashcards
His time under king Darius
Submitted to Darius’s authority
Took part in in his Expedition against the scythians
Herodotus claims that Militiades with the other Ionian tyrants thought about destroying the Hellespont, would have destroyed Darius’s expedition (never carried out)
His time under Hippias
the guy that led the expedition against the Greeks at Marathon
Was an archon in Athens
Sent by the tyrant Hippias to subdue the Chersonese, he then ruled there
His loss of Chersonese
He was driven out by a Scythian invasion
Joined the Ionian revolt gained control of Lemnos
After the Ionian revolt was crushed he fled back to Athens
His joining with the democratic Athens
There he was tried for being a tyrant of the Chersonese
But the Athenians acquitted him
They then elected him as one of their ten generals
Contributions at Marathon
To persuade Callimachus to fight
-Herodotus may have exaggerated his importance (was it Callimachus that made his own choice?)
Militiades was responsible for persuading the generals to fight before the Persians could organise their cavalry
His death
He was given a separate grave marker to symbolise his pivotal role in the battle
Cornelius Nepos
A later roman biographer
Said that Militiades only honour received was a painting
(the poikile stoa- the painted colonnade) in central Athens
“His portrait was give the leading place among the ten generals and he was represented in the act of arranging the troops and giving the signal for battle”
His death
Led an Athenian fleet against the island of Paros
He failed
Was brought to trial and fined 50 talents (allot)
Died shortly from gangrene
Crimson pain the fine
