Miltiades

Miltiades in Wikipedia

Miltiades or Miltiadis (short: Miltos) is a Greek name. Several historic persons have been called Miltiades (Μιλτιάδης). * Miltiades the Elder (died c. 524 BC) wealthy Athenian, and step-uncle of Miltiades the Younger * Miltiades the Younger (c. 550 - 489 BC), tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese and the Athenian commanding general in the Battle of...

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Miltiădes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

The son of Cypselus. He was a man of considerable distinction in Athens in the time of Pisistratus. The Doloncians, a Thracian tribe dwelling in the Chersonesus, being hard pressed in war by the Absinthians, applied to the Delphic oracle for advice, and were directed to admit a colony led by the man who should be the first to entertain them after t...

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