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ARISTAGORAS (d. 497 B.c.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARISTAGORAS (d. 497 B.c.)  , See also:brother-in-See also:law and See also:cousin of See also:Histiaeus, See also:tyrant of See also:Miletus . While Histiaeus was practically a prisoner at the See also:court of See also:Darius, he acted as See also:regent in Miletus . In 500 B.C. he persuaded the Persians to join him in an attack upon See also:Naxos, but he quarrelled with Megabates, the See also:Persian See also:commander, who warned the inhabitants of the See also:island, and the expedition failed . Finding himself the See also:object of Persian suspicion, See also:Aristagoras, instigated by a See also:message from Histiaeus, raised the See also:standard of revolt in Miletus, though it seems likely that this step had been under See also:consideration for some See also:time (see See also:IONIA) . After the See also:complete failure of the Ionian revolt he emigrated to Myrcinus in See also:Thrace . Here he See also:fell in See also:battle (497), while attacking Ennea Hodoi (afterwards See also:Amphipolis) on the Strymon, which belonged to the Edonians, a Thracian tribe . The aid given to him by See also:Athens and See also:Eretria, and the burning of See also:Sardis, were the immediate cause of the invasion of See also:Greece by Darius . See See also:Herodotus v . 30-51, 97-126; See also:Thucydides iv . 1o2; Diodorus xii . 68; for a more favourable view see G . B .

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Grundy, See also:Great Persian See also:War (See also:London, 1901) .

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Histiaeus was Aristagoras' father in law
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