Miltiades biography of william

When Miltiades, the son of Cimon, was born, the city of Athens was ruled by a tyrant named Pisistratus.

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Later traditions presented Miltiades as an opponent of the tyrant and his son Hippias, but this is probably not the whole truth, because we know from an inscription that he occupied the office of archon in 524/523, which suggests that he cooperated with the ruling family.

He also belonged to the high court, the areopagus.

In c.520, Miltiades inherited the Chersonese, the peninsula north of Troy and west of the Hellespont. The Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, writing in the 430s, tells us that a generation before Miltiades, his uncle Miltiades the Elder had been advised by the oracle of Delphi to accept the government in this country, which was offered to him by an embassy of Chersonesians, who feared the loss of their independence.

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