Aristagoras

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Aristagoras († 497 BC ) was a tyrant of Miletus .

The son-in-law of the tyrant Histiaios of Miletus took over his successor to the throne when Histiaios was called to Susa by the Persian king Darius I , and initially presented himself as a loyal vassal of Persia, comparable to his father-in-law in ambition .

In the following years he tried unsuccessfully to gain merit by regaining the island of Naxos , which had renounced Persia. The costly train left Aristagoras in debt to the Persians and his reputation among them suffered greatly. To protect himself from the Persians, he made a sham democracy in Miletus and began in 499 BC. BC, presumably under the direction of Histiaios, the Ionian uprising and a campaign against Sardis , seat of the Persian satrapy of Ionia. He asked for help in the uprising in the Greek cities west of the Aegean Sea, but was rejected by the currently strongest military power in Greece, Sparta , and only received help from Athens and Eretria . Despite initial successes, for example the capture of large parts of Sardis with the help of the Athenians, the uprising failed. The decisive battle of Ark was won by the Persians with the help of the Phoenician fleet . The uprising was suppressed under the Persian satrap Artaphernes and the Greek cities of Asia Minor were recaptured by the Persians.

Aristagoras remained as commander in Miletus during the uprising. After Sardis was taken, he withdrew his army to Miletus and, after the turn of the revolt, fled with a number of colonists to Thrace , where he died in 497 BC. Died in fighting against the Thracian tribe of the Edon near the later Amphipolis .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hdt. 5.35-38.
  2. ↑ Hdt. 5.49-54.
  3. ↑ Hdt. 5.97, 99.
  4. ↑ Hdt. 5,124, 126; 6.1, 5; Thuk. 4.102, 2-3; Diod. 12.68, 1-2.
personal data
SURNAME Aristagoras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrant of Miletus
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 497 BC Chr.
Place of death at Amphipolis