Miltiades

Family: Athens · Role: general · First appears: Themistocles

Life events

Aristides transferred his command to Miltiades, consolidating unified leadership.(Aristides · 📍 Marathon)
- With: Aristides
- “Every leader by his day having the command in chief when it came to Aristides' turn, he delivered it into the hands of Miltiades, showing his fellow officers, that it is not dishonorable to obey and follow wise and able men, but, on the contrary, noble and prudent.”
Miltiades died in prison, leaving Cimon and Elpinice orphaned while still young.(Cimon)
- With: Cimon Elpinice
- “Miltiades, being condemned in a fine of fifty talents to the State, and unable to pay it, was cast into prison, and there died. Thus Cimon was left an orphan very young, with his sister Elpinice, who was also young and unmarried.”

rivals with Themistocles “These measures he carried in the assembly, against the opposition, as Stesimbrotus relates, of Miltiades”
with Themistocles (interaction) “These measures he carried in the assembly, against the opposition, as Stesimbrotus relates, of Miltiades;”

with Aristides (interaction) “Every leader by his day having the command in chief when it came to Aristides' turn, he delivered it into the hands of Miltiades”

child: Cimon “Cimon was the son of Miltiades and Hegesipyle, who was by birth a Thracian, and daughter to the king Olorus”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.