MILTIADES THE YOUNGER

born c. 554 BC, Athens died probably 489 BC, Athens Athenian general who led Athenian forces to victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490. Piero Treves Additional reading The best writings on Miltiades in English are in H.T. Wade-Gery, Essays in Greek History (1958); E.S. Gruen, Stesimbrotus on Miltiades and Themistocles, California Studies in Classical Antiquity, 3:9198 (1970); the general works by C. Hignett, Xerxes' Invasion of Greece (1963); and A.R. Burn, Persia and the Greeks (1962). The only recent, though highly tendentious, biography of Miltiades is by H. Berve, Miltiades: Studien zur Geschichte des Mannes und seiner Zeit (1937), who eventually qualified and severely modified his theory.