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 leads an unsuccessful campaign against Paros . |
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| Buddhist calendar | 55/56 (southern Buddhism); 54/55 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
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In 489 BC BC Miltiades the Younger tries to take the momentum of the previous year with him after the victory in the battle of Marathon over the Persians and leads a campaign against the island of Paros. The Attic attack fails, however, and on his return to Athens, Miltiades is accused by Xanthippos and sentenced by a court.
Legend has it that the exiled war hero Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus at the head of the Volscians started a war against his homeland Rome on the Italian peninsula .
Events
Eastern Mediterranean
After his victory at Marathon, Miltiades the Younger leads an Attic campaign against the island of Paros , but it fails. Therefore, after his return to Athens, Miltiades is accused by Xanthippos and sentenced to death. However, the death penalty is converted into a large fine that he cannot pay. As a result, he was sent to prison, where he died of an injury sustained near Paros, whereby atimia , the loss of his civil rights , passed to his heirs. His son Kimon can only regain his civil rights by giving his half-sister Elpinike to the wealthy Athenian Callias as his wife, who pays the money debt.
Aristeides , an opponent of Themistocles ' naval plans , becomes Archon of Athens .
Western Mediterranean
- According to tradition, Gaius Iulius Iullus and Publius Pinarius Mamercinus Rufus are consuls of the Roman Republic.
- The war hero Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus , exiled two years ago, starts a war against the Roman Republic and his hometown Rome at the head of the Volscians .
Died
- around 489 BC Chr .: Miltiades the Younger , Athenian general and politician, victor of the Battle of Marathon , in Athens in custody of a wound sustained in the battle in front of Paros (* around 550 BC )