book 6

'you made the shoe and Aristagoras put it on'

• Mardonius' failure after the Ionian Revolt
• Exiled Pisistratid aiding Darius
• Size of the Persian force that embarked from Naxos to marathon
• Artaphernes' quote to Histiaeus on the Ionian Revolt

Chios

• Positive policies by the empire after the Ionian revolt
• Where Histiaeus fled to after this confrontation with Artaphernes
• Quote by Herodotus from an oracle of Apollo, citing the God's displeasure at the Persian progress to invading Greece
• Darius sent heralds to Greece demanding earth and water

Hermippus

• The island the Persians now conquered after having previously failed
• The messenger sent by the Athenians and where he was sent, as well as their reply
• The messenger Histiaeus sent but who conveyed the message to Artaphernes first
• Mardonius' failure after the Ionian Revolt

Miletus

• The island the Persians now conquered after having previously failed
• Number of Ionian ships at Lade
• Where Histiaeus tried to return to but refused as they did not want any more tyrants
• The King restored to the throne of the mutinous Ionian state for helping the Persians

353

• Most experienced Greek commander at Marathon and why this was
• The messenger Histiaeus sent but who conveyed the message to Artaphernes first
• Number of Ionian ships at Lade
• Exiled Pisistratid aiding Darius

600

• Razing of Miletus
• The Siege of Eretria
• Quote from Hippias on losing his tooth on the plain at Marathon
• Number of Persian ships at Lade

Dionysius of Phocaea

• Quote by Herodotus from an oracle of Apollo, citing the God's displeasure at the Persian progress to invading Greece
• Where Histiaeus fled to after this confrontation with Artaphernes
• Exiled Pisistratid aiding Darius
• The new leader of the Ionian navy

'our fate balances on a razor's edge between being free men or slaves'

• What Datis did to show respect for the altar at Delos
• Quote from Dionysius of Phocaea to his troops
• Quote to show Darius' levelheaded nature towards Histiaeus
• The Siege of Eretria

494 BC

• The Siege of Eretria
• The Battle of Lade
• The Eretrians send for aid, fearing a Persian invasion, but this person sends the volunteers back
• Number of Greek men in their army at Marathon

494 BC

• The Spartan reaction on arrival 2 days late
• Razing of Miletus
• The Eretrians send for aid, fearing a Persian invasion, but this person sends the volunteers back
• The change to the Athenian formation to accommodate for the larger Persian force