Aristagoras
historical figure · 3 works · 7 mentions · 26 anchored passages
Aristagoras of Miletus · Aristagoras the Milesian · Aristagoras son of Molpagoras · the Milesian
spoken of as
1 expressionAristagoras of Miletus2 mentions
The Histories (Greek)
Aristagoras, however, said, “But you, what have you to do with these matters?
in the texts
The Histories
Tyrant/leader of Miletus who travels to Sparta and then Athens seeking military help for the Ionian revolt against Persia.
Thus spoke Aristagoras, and Cleomenes replied:
Till now, Aristagoras had been cunning and fooled the Spartan well, but here he made a false step.
Then Aristagoras began to promise Cleomenes from ten talents upwards, if he would grant his request.
Nemean
Victor from Tenedos, son of Hagesilas, honored in the second section of the ode for sixteen victories in wrestling and the pancratium.
I call that man blessed in his father Hagesilas, in his marvellous body, and in his inborn steadiness.
But the too hesitant hopes of his parents restrained the boy’s strength from attempting the contests at Pytho and Olympia.
For in contests of those who live around him, sixteen splendid victories crowned Aristagoras and his illustrious fatherland, in wrestling and in the proud pancratium.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Milesian who made the first, unsuccessful attempt to settle the site later occupied by Amphipolis.
On the site on which the town now stands a settlement was before attempted by Aristagoras the Milesian, when flying from king Darius;