- Histiæus’ attempt on Miletus.
- Histiæus goes to Byzantion.
- Persian reinforcements arriving in Asia Minor.
- Some Carian and Ionian cities begin to make terms with the Persian.
- Miletus attacked.
- Battle of Ladé.
- Capture of Miletus.
- Reduction of Caria.
- Histiæus at Chios and Thasos.
- Persian fleet at Miletus.
- Histiæus’ death.
- Reduction of the islands and of the towns on the mainland.
CHAPTER IV.
PERSIAN OPERATIONS IN EUROPE: B.C. 493–490. MARATHON.
There had been a passive as well as an active side to the revolt. Its effects had been more far reaching than its activities. On the European side the Hellespont region,[49] Thrace and Macedonia had thrown off the Persian yoke, but there is no record of their having joined in the offensive against the Persian. The Hellespontine cities on the Asiatic shore had been already reduced. H. vi. 33. The fleet now proceeded to the reduction of the further shore of the Propontis. Miltiades’ principality in the Thracian Chersonese, Perinthos, the forts Thraceward, together with Selymbria, Byzantion, and Kalchedon were subjugated once more. From Byzantion and Kalchedon the inhabitants fled to the Pontus, whither the Phœnicians did not, possibly dare not, follow them. These towns were burnt.