[permalink] [id link]
* Miltiades the Elder ( died c. 524 BC ), wealthy Athenian, and step-uncle of Miltiades the Younger
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Miltiades and Elder
In the 6th century BC Lampsacus was attacked by Miltiades the Elder and Stesagoras, the Athenian tyrants of the nearby Thracian Chersonese.
The Athenian statesman Miltiades the Elder founded a major Athenian colony there around 560 BC.
Miltiades and died
* Pope Miltiades ( died 314 ), African saint and pope
Miltiades was given a massive fine for the crime of ' deceiving the Athenian people ', but died weeks later as a result of his wound.
It was at a temple of Demeter Thesmophoros in Paros that Miltiades received the wound from which he died.
Miltiades was given a massive fine for the crime of ' deceiving the Athenian people ', but died weeks later from his wound.
As Miltiades could not afford to pay this amount, he was put in jail, where he died in 489 BC.
Miltiades and c
Miltiades the Younger ( c. 550 – 489 BC ) was tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese and the Athenian commanding general in the Battle of Marathon.
* c. 450 BC — death of Cimon, major political figure in Athens and the son of Miltiades
* Miltiades, Athenian general ( b. c. 550 BC )
Miltiades and .
Many illustrious Athenians, including Cimon, Miltiades, Alcibiades and the historian Thucydides, traced their descent from Ajax.
Under the guidance of Miltiades, the Athenian general with the greatest experience of fighting the Persians, the Athenian army marched quickly to block the two exits from the plain of Marathon, and prevent the Persians moving inland.
There were ten Athenian strategoi ( generals ) at Marathon, elected by each of the ten tribes that the Athenians were divided into ; Miltiades was one of these.
He further suggests that each strategos, on his day in command, instead deferred to Miltiades.
In Herodotus's account, Miltiades is keen to attack the Persians ( despite knowing that the Spartans are coming to aid the Athenians ), but strangely, chooses to wait until his actual day of command to attack.
There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.
And when Miltiades realized that, he attacked and thus won.
Miltiades ordered the two tribes that were forming the center of the Greek formation, the Leontis tribe led by Themistocles and the Antiochis tribe led by Aristides, to be arranged in the depth of four ranks while the rest of the tribes at their flanks were in ranks of eight.
* 314 – Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
Manichaean monasteries existed in Rome in 312 A. D. during the time of the Christian Pope Miltiades.
Pope Saint Miltiades, also called Melchiades ( Μελχιάδης ὁ Ἀφρικανός in Greek ), was Pope from 2 July 311 to 10 January 314.
According to the Liber Pontificalis, Miltiades was African, although McBrien states he was probably Roman.
The Liber Pontificalis, compiled from the 5th century onwards, attributed the introduction of several later customs to Miltiades, including not fasting on Thursdays or Sundays, although subsequent scholarship now believes the customs probably pre-dated Miltiades.
da: Pave Miltiades 1.
Thucydides was probably connected through family to the Athenian statesman and general Miltiades, and his son Cimon, leaders of the old aristocracy supplanted by the Radical Democrats.
After Marathon, probably in 489, Miltiades, the hero of the battle, was seriously wounded in an abortive attempt to capture Paros.
Meanwhile the Spartans actively worked against him, trying to promote Cimon ( son of Miltiades ) as a rival to Themistocles.
Miltiades and 524
It eventually passed to his nephew, the more famous Miltiades the Younger, around 524 BC.
Miltiades and BC
* 490 BC: The Battle of Marathon, where Darius I of Persia is defeated by the Athenians and Plataeans under Miltiades
* 488 BC — Death of Miltiades, Athenian general
* Miltiades the Younger, the ruler of the Thracian Chersonese, which has been under Persian suzerainty since approximately 514 BC, joins the Ionian revolt.
* 488 BC – Miltiades, Athenian general
** Cimon, major political figure in Athens and the son of Miltiades ( approximate date ) ( b. 510 BC )
But soon ( 510 BC ) it was reconquered by Miltiades the Younger, the tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese.
The Athenian general Miltiades the Younger led the victory over the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC, and Themistocles was chiefly responsible for the victory at Salamis 10 years later.
His daughter Hegesipyle married the Athenian statesman and general Miltiades, who defeated the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
In 490 BC the Athenians, led by the soldier-statesman Miltiades, defeated the first invasion of the Persians under Darius I at the Battle of Marathon.
Miltiades conquered the island from Persia after the battle of Salamis ; the colony was established about 450 BC, during the first Athenian empire, and was retained by Athens ( with brief exceptions ) for the next six centuries.
Like his father and grandfather ( the famous Miltiades ) Lacedaimonius was a general and served Athens, notably in the naval Battle of Sybota against the Corinthians in 433 BC.
Cimon ( in Greek, Κίμων — Kimōn ) ( 510, Athens – 450 BC, Citium, Cyprus ), was an Athenian statesman, strategos, and major political figure in mid-5th century BC Greece, the son of Miltiades, victor of Marathon.
Aristo, son of Miltiades, was born on the island of Chios sometime around 300 BC.
The 6th century date is based on the fact that in 510 BC the Athenian Miltiades invaded Lemnos and Hellenized it.
It was originally a colony of the Milesians and Clazomenians ; but subsequently, in the time of Miltiades ( late 6th century BC ), the place also received Athenian colonists, as proved by Miltiades tyranny ( 515 – 493 BC ).
0.325 seconds.