The Twitter Herodotus

6.131 Megacles and Agariste had a son, the Cleisthenes whose reforms democratized Athens. Their great-grandson was Pericles of Athens.

6.132 After Marathon Miltiades, now more famous than ever, asked for & was given 70 ships for an expedition he promised would be lucrative.

6.133 Miltiades sailed off & besieged Paros--allegedly bc they'd helped the Persians--and demanded they hand over 100 talents. They refused.

6.134 The Parians say Miltiades, at the suggestion of a priestess, went to Demeter's temple for some reason, panicked, and injured his leg.

6.135 Miltiades sailed home, injured, his expedition a failure. Delphi later told the Parians he'd been aided by a phantom, not a priestess.

6.136 M. was charged w/lying to the people. He was convicted & fined & soon died from his injury. His conquest of Lemnos was cited in court.

6.137 The story is that the Athenians at one point drove the Pelasgians out of Attica. The P. then settled other places, including Lemnos.

6.138 The P in Lemnos kidnapped & had kids w/some Athenian women. These kids bullied their Pelasgian peers so the P. killed them & the moms.

6.139 Told by Delphi to make it right, the P. agreed to give up Lemnos if the Athen. sailed there from their land in 1 day in a north wind.

6.140 Years later, Miltiades sailed w/a north wind from the Chersonese--Attic land--and took Lemnos. Some Lemnians only left after a siege.