Cimon (son of Miltiades)
“son of Miltiades”
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Cimon · Cimon, the son of Miltiades
in the texts
The Histories
Son of Miltiades who paid his father's fifty-talent fine after Miltiades's death.
Miltiades later died of gangrene and rot in his thigh, and the fifty talents were paid by his son Cimon.
When he was besieged by the Athenians under Cimon son of Miltiades, he could have departed under treaty from Eion and returned to Asia, but he refused, lest the king think that he had saved his life out of cowardice;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Prominent Athenian general and son of Miltiades, leading commander of Athenian campaigns from Eion through the Cyprus expedition where he dies.
who went under the command of Cimon with no small force.
Cimon having died, and there being a dearth of provisions, they retired from Citium;
and the Athenians were victorious in both engagements on the same day, under the command of Cimon, the son of Miltiades;