User:MinisterForBadTimes/Drafts - List of Greek commanders in the Greco-Persian Wars
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List of Greek commanders in the Greco-Persian Wars
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[edit]Name | Died | Allegiance | Command | Battles | Notes |
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Aristagoras | 497 BC, murdered in Thrace[1] | Miletus | 499–497 BC Former tyrant of Miletus, self appointed leader of Ionian Revolt[1] | Siege of Naxos (499 BC)[1] | |
Melanthius | ? | Athens[2] | 498 BC: Appointed by Athenian assembly as admiral of force sent to Ionia[2] | Siege of Sardis (498 BC), Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)[2] | |
Eualcides | 498 BC: killed at Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)[3] | Eretria[3] | 498 BC: General of Eretrian force sent to Ionia[3] | Siege of Sardis (498 BC), Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)[3] | |
Charopinus | ? | Miletus[4] | 498 BC: Appointed general by his Aristagoras (his brother)[4] | Siege of Sardis (498 BC), Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)[4] | |
Hermophantus | ? | Miletus[4] | 498 BC: Appointed general by Aristagoras[4] | Siege of Sardis (498 BC), Battle of Ephesus (498 BC)[4] | |
Dionysius | ? | Phocaea[5] | 494 BC: Appointed admiral by agreement of the Ionian cities[5] | Battle of Lade[5] | Escaped to Sicily after the Battle and established himself as a pirate[6] |
Histiaeus | 493 BC; executed on orders Artaphernes[7] | Miletus[7] | 493 BC: Former tyrant of Miletus; self-apppointed leader of resistance to Persia after the Battle of Lade[7] | Battle of Chios, Battle of Malene[7] | |
Callimachus | 490 BC; killed at the Battle of Marathon[8] | Athens[9] | 490 BC: Elected War-Archon of Athens.[9] | Battle of Marathon[9] | |
Miltiades | 489 BC; died after being injured on campaign against Aegina.[7] | Miletus[7] | 490 BC: Tyrant of the Thracian Chersonese; elected Strategos of one of the Athenian tribes.[9] | Battle of Marathon[9] |