CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Miletus, Mardonius

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Greek, so how were the greeks of ionia (descendents of achilles) work with a. Achilles is on vase, and it shows how he couldn"t even work with a brother power that isn"t even greeks, So they looked for ally"s (cid:523)in mainland(cid:524) In city of miletus in 499 bc, there was a revolt, the milesian greeks launched an independed movement. Most of the greek world said no, except the athenians bc they saw themselves related thought to be like gods) The revolt was short lived (about 1 year) They marched into the city of sardis, occupied it and burned it. At this point is not longer cyrus since he is dead, its darius i (since 522 bc) Greeks were no real threat, but ideological threat (persian kings are weakness and vulnerability in his rule bc he feared that there would be a larger rebellion. So a small rebellion, if he didn"t do anything about it (punish), would show.