HIST 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Strategos, The Persians, Ostracism
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He would persuade athens to give him ships on teh promise that h woulse use them to generate income for the city. He would lead a failure of a nacal campaign against teh island of paros in 489. He was morally wounded while violating the sanctuary of demeter. He would be fined for the lack of success and impeached. He would die after his trial, and his son cimon was forced to pay the debt. The significance here was that the demos, a heavy, body politic made up of citizens from the ten tribes, clearly had the coniiencnce in itself and its right to rule that they punished a very popular man for failure. From here on in, there was a changing dynamic between leaders and the demos that helped to define the nature of. After marathon, the athenian citizenry began to understand the value of sound military leadership in their elected officials.
