Cimon
Family: Athenian · Role: general · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 17
After the Persians were at Marathon, Cimon, son of Miltiades, drove the inhabitants from Scyrus to avenge Theseus’ death and brought Theseus’s bones to Athens; later, he discovered the bones and captured Scyrus. He built part of the Acropolis walls, and the Lacedæmonians sent back the picked men dispatched under him, moved by suspicion.
In Book 4, the Lacedæmonians summoned Cimon, whom they counted as a friend, and asked him for Athenian troops to help subdue a revolt. In Book 8, he besieged Boges and the Persians at Eion on the Strymon; Agesipolis (son of Pausanias) later used the same stratagem against the walls of Mantinea.
Relationship record
Life events
- Cimon expelled Scyrus’s inhabitants and conveyed Theseus’s bones to Athens.(Book 1 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Theseus
- “it was Miltiades’ son, Cimon, that drove out the inhabitants of Scyrus to revenge the hero’s death, and that conveyed his bones to Athens.”
- Cimon built part of the Acropolis walls.(Book 1 · Chapter 28 · 📍 Acropolis)
- “The walls of the Acropolis, (except what Cimon the son of Miltiades built,)”
- The Lacedæmonians rejected the picked men sent under Cimon and returned them suspiciously.(Book 1 · Chapter 29)
- “and they despatched to them picked men under Cimon the son of Miltiades. These the Lacedæmonians sent back moved by suspicion.”
- Cimon discovered Theseus’ bones and then captured Scyrus.(Book 3 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Scyrus)
- With: Theseus
- “And Cimon the son of Miltiades discovered the bones of Theseus, he too by ingenuity, and not long after he took Scyrus.”
- The Lacedæmonians summoned Cimon and requested Athenian troops against the revolt.(Book 4 · Chapter 24)
- “And the Lacedæmonians sent for several allies to help to subdue them, and among others for Cimon (the son of Miltiades) their friend, of whom they also begged some Athenian troops.”
Book 1 · Chapter 17
- parent: Miltiades (Miltiades is Cimon's father.) “for it was Miltiades’ son, Cimon, that drove out the inhabitants of Scyrus”
- with Theseus (Cimon avenges Theseus's death and conveys his bones to Athens.) “it was Miltiades’ son, Cimon, that drove out the inhabitants of Scyrus to revenge the hero’s death, and that conveyed his bones to Athens.”
Book 1 · Chapter 28
- parent: Miltiades (Miltiades is Cimon's father.) “except what Cimon the son of Miltiades built,”
Book 1 · Chapter 29
- parent: Miltiades “and they despatched to them picked men under Cimon the son of Miltiades.”
Book 2 · Chapter 29
- parent: Miltiades “except Miltiades, who led the Athenians at Marathon, and his son Cimon, both of whom were exceedingly illustrious.”
Book 3 · Chapter 3
- with Theseus (Cimon discovered the bones of Theseus.) “And Cimon the son of Miltiades discovered the bones of Theseus”
- parent: Miltiades (Miltiades is Cimon's father.) “And Cimon the son of Miltiades discovered the bones of Theseus”
Book 4 · Chapter 24
- parent: Miltiades “And the Lacedæmonians sent for several allies to help to subdue them, and among others for Cimon (the son of Miltiades) their friend, of whom they also begged some Athenian troops.”
Book 8 · Chapter 8
- parent: Miltiades “Cimon, the son of Miltiades, when he was besieging Boges the Mede and the Persians at Eion on the Strymon”
- enemies with Boges “when he was besieging Boges the Mede and the Persians at Eion on the Strymon”
- with Agesipolis (son of Pausanias) (Agesipolis imitated Cimon's earlier stratagem.) “This stratagem which Agesipolis employed against the walls of Mantinea was formerly employed by Cimon, the son of Miltiades, when he was besieging Boges the Mede and the Persians at Eion on the Strymon.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.