Miltiade the Young person

Miltiade , in Greek old Μιλτιάδης/ Miltiadês , born with Athens in 540, died in Athens in 489), Athenian Strategist and Tyrant of Chersonèse of Thrace.

He was the nephew of Miltiade Old the, itself wire of Cypsélos, which had founded the colony of Chersonèse of Thrace at the time of Pisistrate, and the son of Cimon of the family of the Philaïdes, undoubtedly originating in Égine.

Archonte of Athens in 524, it was in 518 in charge of the administration of Chersonèse by the son of Pisistrate, Hippias, where it succeeded his brother Stésagoras. For this reason, it undergoes the domination of the Perses. It accompanied then Darius I {{er}} in its countryside against the Scythes, in 514. It was left with the guard of the bridge on the the Danube, with the other Greeks. Darius not being presented to the fixed day, it proposed with the Scythians and Ionian to cut the bridge and to give up the Large King with his fate, but the Ionian ones refused.

In 499, benefitting from the revolt of the Ionie, it seized Lemnos and Imbros. However its position quickly became intolerable, and it had to flee with Athens, escaping from little from the Persian fleet (492). He was shown of Tyran denies, but was discharged.

Become one of the leaders of the oligarchical party , with the support of Aristide the Juste, it was elected Stratège and exerted a determining influence on his/her nine other colleagues. It was its resolution and its energy which made it possible the Athénien S to gain the victory of Marathon in -490.

This success was of short duration. Miltiade, benefitting from its gained prestige with Marathon, launched a forwarding against Paros. Always it is that it failed in -489 in front of the city, where it was wounded. There its democratic adversaries, in particular Xanthippe, the father of Périclès, found a pretext to show it treason. It is true that the Athenians had entrusted a fleet of 70 to him Trière S without it revealing its projects, and that he had attacked Paros for his own account. After an iniquitous lawsuit, he was condemned to a fine of 50 talents and, incompetent to pay, he died in prison continuations of his wounds into 489. This version however is disputed by Hérodote.

Miltiade was the father of Cimon, another large Athenian strategist.

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