Miltiades

Family: Athenian · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2

Life events

• The Athenians captured Eion from the Medes and enslaved its inhabitants under Cimon’s command.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2 · 📍 Eion on the Strymon)
  • With: Cimon
  • “First the Athenians besieged and captured Eion on the Strymon from the Medes, and made slaves of the inhabitants, being under the command of Cimon, son of Miltiades.”
• The Athenians won both battles and captured and destroyed the Phoenician fleet under Cimon’s command.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2 · 📍 the river Eurymedon)
  • With: Cimon
  • “Next we come to the actions by land and by sea at the river Eurymedon, between the Athenians with their allies, and the Medes, when the Athenians won both battles on the same day under the conduct of Cimon, son of Miltiades, and captured and destroyed the whole Phoenician fleet, consisting of two hundred vessels.”
• Cimon led an Athenian force to assist the Lacedaemonians in their war against the rebels.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2 · 📍 Ithome)
  • With: Cimon
  • “The Lacedaemonians, meanwhile, finding the war against the rebels in Ithome likely to last, invoked the aid of their allies, and especially of the Athenians, who came in some force under the command of Cimon.”

Book 1 · Chapter 4 · Part 2

• child: Cimon “being under the command of Cimon, son of Miltiades.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.