The Twitter Herodotus

5.21 So the ambassadors were all killed. Alexander later made the problem go away by marrying his sister to the guy charged w/finding them.

5.22 The Macedonians are of Greek descent. The Olympic officials thought as much, as they allowed Alexander to participate in a footrace.

5.23 Megabazus returned to Sardis from Thrace and suggested Darius recall Histiaeus: he was fortifying Myrcinus and might become a threat.

5.24 Darius summoned Histiaeus and brought him with him to Susa, where Histiaeus was to serve as his trusted advisor.

5.25 Darius made his brother-by-another-mother Artaphrenes satrap of Sardis & gave Otanes (not the conspirator) Megabazus' job.

5.26 Otanes captured, among other places, Byzantium and the islands of Lemnos and Imbros.

5.27 Lycaretus was made governor of the Lemnians, but he was killed on the job because he was a bully and enslaved everybody.

5.28 Other troubles came, in Naxos and Miletus. The Milesians had once been torn by faction, but they had been reconciled by the Parians.

5.29 The Parians helped by restructuring their government. They gave authority in Miletus to the Milesians whose farms were best run.

5.30 So, some Naxian rebels asked Aristagoras, acting tyrant of Miletus, for help w/restoration to Naxos. He said he'd talk to Artaphrenes.