id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8804 Miltiades - Wikipedia .html text/html 2945 449 77 550 – 489 BC), also known as Miltiades the Younger, was a Greek Athenian citizen known mostly for his role in the Battle of Marathon, as well as for his downfall afterwards. His family was prominent, due in good part to their success with Olympic chariot-racing.[1][2] Plutarch claimed that Cimon, Miltiades' father, was known as "Coalemos", meaning "simpleton", because he had a reputation for being rough around the edges,[3] but whose three successive chariot-racing victories at the Olympics made him popular, so popular in fact that, Herodotus claims, the sons of Peisistratos murdered him out of jealousy.[4] In around 513 BC, Darius I, the king of Persia, led a large army into the area, forcing the Thracian Chersonese into submission and making Miltiades a vassal of Persian rule. Miltiades fighting the Persians at the Battle of Marathon, in the Stoa Poikile (reconstitution) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8804.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8804.txt