Miltiades

Family: Athenians · Role: Athenian general · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 17

In Book 1, Miltiades is linked as parent to Cimon, whose son drove the inhabitants from Scyrus; he is also named alongside Themistocles among those who had been removed in favor of a Roman and a Thracian. A monument to Miltiades, son of Cimon, records that he later failed to capture Paros and was put on trial by the Athenians on that account; his death occurred afterward.

In Book 3, Miltiades is held responsible for the Athenians’ killing of Darius’s envoys at Attica, and the wrath of Talthybius was said to fall especially on his household. In Book 6, he led the warriors who captured Aratus’s fort on the Chersonese and dedicated an ivory horn to Zeus at Olympia. Later accounts compare Diæus’s actions with those of Miltiades and the Athenians before Marathon, and call Miltiades the first public benefactor of Greece, remembering his defeat of the barbarians at Marathon and his checking of the Persian host.

Relationship record

Life events

• Miltiades died after failing to capture Paros.(Book 1 · Chapter 32)
  • “whose death occurred afterwards, when he failed to capture Paros”
• Miltiades was put on trial by the Athenians.(Book 1 · Chapter 32)
  • “and was on that account put on his trial by the Athenians”
• Miltiades was held responsible for the Athenians’ killing of Darius’s envoys.(Book 3 · Chapter 12 · 📍 Attica)
  • With: Darius
  • “And the wrath of this Talthybius for the murder of the envoys, who were sent by King Darius to Greece to ask for earth and water, was publicly manifested to the Lacedæmonians, but on the Athenians was visited privately, and mainly on the house of one man, Miltiades the son of Cimon, for he was the person responsible for getting the envoys that came to Attica put to death by the Athenians.”
• Miltiades led warriors who captured the fort of Aratus.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Chersonese)
  • With: Aratus the son of Clinias
  • “I was offered to Zeus by the warriors that took the fort of Aratus on the Chersonese: their leader was Miltiades.”
• Miltiades offered an ivory horn to Zeus.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Zeus
  • “the horn of Amalthea in ivory, the votive offering of Miltiades the son of Cimon”
• Miltiades defeated the barbarians at Marathon and checked the Persian host.(Book 8 · Chapter 52 · 📍 Marathon)
  • “Miltiades the son of Cimon, who defeated the barbarians that landed at Marathon, and checked the Persian host”

Book 1 · Chapter 17

• child: Cimon (Miltiades is Cimon's father.) “for it was Miltiades’ son, Cimon, that drove out the inhabitants of Scyrus”

Book 1 · Chapter 18

• with Themistocles (Both had statues removed and replaced by statues of a Roman and a Thracian.) “for Miltiades and Themistocles have been removed for a Roman and a Thracian!”