Book 6
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6.1 En route to Miletus, Histiaeus met Artaphrenes, who suspected H was behind the revolt. He said H had stitched the shoe Aristagoras wore. |
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6.2 Frightened by A.'s suspicions, Histiaeus fled to Chios. The Chians tied him up until he convinced them he was really an enemy of Darius. |
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6.3 The Ionians asked Histiaeus why he'd prompted Aristagoras to revolt. He lied, saying Darius planned to move the Ionians to Phoenicia. |
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6.4 Histiaeus sent letters to Persian collaborators in Sardis, but his messenger gave them to Artaphrenes, who killed the collaborators. |
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6.5 The Chians tried to reinstall Histiaeus in Miletus, but they didn't want him back. He got ships from Lesbos & went to Byzantium instead. |
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6.6 Meanwhile, the Persians had gathered all their forces and were descending on Miletus. |
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6.7 The Ionians decided the Milesians should defend their walls while the other Ionians manned every ship & collected at the island of Lade. |
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6.8 The Ionians lined up for battle w/353 ships. Those w/the most ships were the Milesians (80), Chians (100), Lesbians (70) & Samians (60). |
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6.9 The barbarians (w/600 ships) told the exiled Ionian tyrants with them to offer rewards to their people to convince them to change sides. |
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6.10 The tyrants duly sent messengers to their old cities, but none turned traitor. Each thought they were the only ones to get the offer. |
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6.11 The Ionians gathered at Lade and Dionysius, the Phocaean general, addressed them: if they worked hard, they could beat the Persians. |
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6.12 Dionysius put them through training exercises, but after seven days they'd had enough of hard work and they refused to continue. |
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6.13 The Samians, seeing the Ionians' lack of discipline, decided to accept their tyrant's offer and quit the Ionian alliance. |
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6.14 During the battle that followed, all but 11 Samian ships deserted the Greeks mid-fight. Their withdrawal prompted others to leave too. |
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6.15 Of those who stood firm, the Chians fared the worst. They captured many enemy ships and lost many of their own. |
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6.16 But afterwards some of them made for home overland, arriving at Ephesus at night. The Ephesians, thinking them thieves, killed them. |
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6.17 Dionysius of Phocaea, seeing the Ionians were finished, captured three enemy ships and sailed off to become a pirate in Sicily. |
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6.18 After their victory the Persians laid siege to Miletus and captured it. The oracle the Milesians had received thus came to pass. |
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6.19 The oracle had said that the Milesian women would wind up washing the feet of long-haired warriors: the Persians wore their hair long. |
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6.20 The Milesian POWs were brought to Susa, and Darius settled them near the Red Sea. He gave Miletus itself to the Carians. |
| Posted on 04-24-13 | |
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