Herodotus Books 5.35ff. and Book 6:48 ff.
Ionian revolt and Greek national character.
[-->Quiz 1 guide, section 4]
Be able to identify the following major figures and key events:
1) Ionian Revolt:
Histiaeus and Aristagoras
Cleomenes (king of Sparta)
Tyrants expelled at Athens (connect with tale of Pisistratus in Bk. 1)
Aristagoras enlists Athenian aid
Sack of Sardis
Fall of Miletus (494, and Athenian reaction)
2) the road to Marathon (the war with Darius)
Miltiades at Athens
Double kingship at Sparta
Demaratus and Leotychides
Marathon (490)
[epilogue: Cleisthenes (of the Alcmeonidae)]