{"slug": "miltiades", "label": "Miltiades", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miltiades", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q210350", "qid": "Q210350", "description": "Greek Athenian statesman and general (c.550–489 BC)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [-549, -488], "span_label": ["550 BCE", "489 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Miltiades the Younger"], "related": [{"slug": "ionia", "label": "Ionia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-olympic-games", "label": "Ancient Olympic Games", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scythians", "label": "Scythians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chersonesus", "label": "Chersonesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gallipoli", "label": "Gallipoli", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lemnos", "label": "Lemnos", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "imbros", "label": "Imbros", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -549, "year_label": "550 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Miltiades, renowned Olympic chariot-racer", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356470815#Births", "title": "550 BC", "revid": 1356470815, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -498, "year_label": "499 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Miltiades the Younger, the ruler of the Thracian Chersonese, which has been under Persian suzerainty since approximately 514 BC, joins the Ionian revolt. He seizes the islands of Lemnos and Imbros from the Persians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129380#Greece", "title": "499 BC", "revid": 1350129380, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -493, "year_label": "494 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Thracians and Scythians drive Miltiades the Younger from the Chersonesos. Miltiades loads five boats with his treasures and makes for Athens. One of the boats, captained by Miltiades' eldest son, Metiochos is captured. Metiochos is taken as a lifelong prisoner to Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362845788#Greece", "title": "494 BC", "revid": 1362845788, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -492, "year_label": "493 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Among the refugees arriving from Ionia after the collapse of the Ionian Revolt is a chief named Miltiades, who has a fine reputation as a soldier. Themistocles makes him a general in the Athenian army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342344261#Greece", "title": "493 BC", "revid": 1342344261, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -489, "year_label": "490 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – The Battle of Marathon takes place as a Persian army of more than 20,000 men is advised by Hippias to land in the Bay of Marathon, where they meet the Athenians supported by the Plataeans. The Persians are repulsed by 11,500 Greeks under the leadership of Callimachus and Miltiades. Some 6,400 Persians are killed at a cost of 192 Athenian dead. Callimachus, the war-archon of Athens, is killed in the battle. After the battle, the Persians return home.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129378#Greece", "title": "490 BC", "revid": 1350129378, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -488, "year_label": "489 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "After his great victory in the Battle of Marathon, Miltiades leads a naval expedition to Paros to pay off a private score. However, the expedition is unsuccessful and, on his return, he is fined in a prosecution led by Xanthippus and put in prison where he dies of wounds received at Paros.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598383#Greece", "title": "489 BC", "revid": 1360598383, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -488, "year_label": "489 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Miltiades, Athenian general (b. c. 550 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598383#Deaths", "title": "489 BC", "revid": 1360598383, "section": "Deaths"}}]}