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.
In the first place, Eion on the Strymon, of which the Medes were in possession, was taken by them after a siege, and reduced to slavery, under the command of Cimon, the son of Miltiades.
and the Athenians were victorious in both engagements on the same day, under the command of Cimon, the son of Miltiades;
So the Athenians ceased from prosecuting the war in Greece, but made an expedition against Cyprus with two hundred ships of their own and of the allies, under the command of Cimon;