He was then made strategos, in which capacity he earned his greatest fame, convincing the War Archon Callimachus to fight the Persians in 490 BC.
This man inherited his initial political power from his namesake and great uncle, who likely fled Athens having opposed the Pisistratids, though Herodotus recounts he left of his own accord to rule over several Athenian colonies in the Thracian Chersonese as the result of an oracle. This man ruled that area, the present Gallipoli, as a tyrant. He offered homage to Darius I and participated in the latter's anti-Scythian operations, but he later joined the Ionian Revolt. The ensuing failure forced this man to take refuge in Athens, where he was nonetheless held prisoner as a tyrant but secured release upon protesting his opposition to Persia. He was then made strategos, in which capacity he earned his greatest fame, convincing the War Archon Callimachus to fight the Persians in 490 BC. For 10 points, name this victorious general of the Battle of Marathon.
This man inherited his initial political power from his namesake and great uncle, who likely fled Athens having opposed the Pisistratids, though Herodotus recounts he left of his own accord to rule over several Athenian colonies in the Thracian Chersonese as the result of an oracle.
Miltiades