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	Iliad
		Artaphernes placed at his disposal a fleet of 200 ships under the command of Megabates, a Persian of high rank; but Aristagoras having affronted the Persian admiral, the latter revenged himself by privately informing the Naxians of the object of the expedition, which had hitherto been kept a secret.
		Artaphernes was taken unprepared; and not having sufficient troops to man the walls, he retired into the citadel, leaving the town a prey to the invaders.
		Artaphernes, however, was not so easily deceived as his master, and plainly accused Histiaeus of treachery when the latter arrived at Sardis.
	www.epimethean.com /imadjz/trojan/history/hist-07.htm (4348 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 369 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		501, Artaphernes was induced by the brilliant hopes which Aristagoras of Miletus held out to him, to place, with the king's consent, 200 ships and a Persian force at the command of Aristagoras, for the purpose of restoring the Naxian exiles to their country.
		Artaphernes was sharp enough to see through the treacherous designs of Histiaeus, and xpressed his suspicions to him at Sardis.
		Artaphernes, though superior in rank, seems to have been inferior in military skill to Datis, who was in reality the commander of the Persian army.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0378.html (972 words)

	Artaphernes
		Artaphernes was the son of Hystaspes and the brother of Darius, who became king in 522 BCE.
		Herodotus' information is to a certain extent corroborated by the tablets found at Persepolis, where 'Irdapirna' is found issuing travel warrants during the Ionian Revolt (e.g., PF 1404: someone traveling from Sardes to Persepolis in November 495).
		The new satrap of Lydia was Artaphernes' son Artaphernes, who served as one of the commanders of the Persian expeditionary force that was defeated by the Athenians at Marathon (490).
	www.livius.org /arl-arz/artaphernes/artaphernes.html (393 words)

	Book 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On his arrival, being asked by Artaphernes, the Sardian satrap, what he thought was the reason that the Ionians had rebelled, he made answer that he could not conceive, and it had astonished him greatly, pretending to be quite unconscious of the whole business.
		Artaphernes, however, satrap of Sardis, and his captor Harpagus, on this very account - because they were afraid that, if he escaped, he would be again received into high favour by the king - put him to death as soon as he arrived at Sardis.
		Artaphernes, satrap of Sardis, summoned deputies from all the Ionian cities, and forced them to enter into agreements with one another, not to harass each other by force of arms, but to settle their disputes by reference.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /Text/Book6.htm (8264 words)

	Iranica.com - IONIAN REVOLT
		Artaphernes could not defend the city and withdrew to the citadel, leaving the town to the Greeks.
		If Artaphernes chose to restore him to Miletus, he would be sure of the King's favor and might well join in ending the Revolt, by persuasion or by force, as he had promised.
		It was Artaphernes' hostility and implied threat that decided Histiaeus on the course he had to pursue.
	www.iranica.com /newsite/articles/v13f2/v13f2018.html (5763 words)

	Ionian Revolt essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Burn puts it, "Aristagoras was not looking forward to his next interview with Artaphernes" as he had promised Artaphernes that it would be simple to take Naxos with minimal risk to Persia, and this would be a clear embarrassment, as well of a major financial loss to both Persia and Aristagoras.
		However the Acropolis is strongly defended by Artaphernes, and the Ionians are unsuccessful.
		It seems likely that the source Herodotus uses may have been in the court of Artaphernes and head the events in question and then told Herodotus - so a large part of the material we have on the revolt is merely Histiaeus's excuse for the events that happened, although this is only speculative.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /essays/inrevolt.htm (3986 words)

	James Ussher - The Annals of the World.
		Artaphernes charged him with being the author of all the unrest and rebellion in Ionia.
		When Artaphernes made peace, he surveyed their country by parasangs, as the Persians called every division and it contained 30 furlongs or 3.75 miles.
		These were Datys, a Median and Artaphernes, (whom the Scholiast of Aristophanes calls Artabaxus) commander of the horses, the son of his brother Artaphernes.
	www.angelfire.com /sc3/nwp/World8.htm (14813 words)

	Marathon - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Persian force had been sent by King Darius to punish the Athenians for previous interferences in Asia and to restore their tyrant Hippias.
		It was probably by advice of the latter that the generals Datis and Artaphernes landed their troops, numbering perhaps 50,000, at Marathon.
		The Athenians, on the recommendation of their strategus Miltiades, resolved to meet this force in the open field, and sent out their full levy of g000 heavy infantry under the polemarch Callimachus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Marathon (710 words)

	Greco-Persian Wars - Crystalinks
		To accomplish the second, Darius's army, now led by Artaphernes, son of a satrap of Sardis, and Datis, a Median admiral (Mardonius had been injured in the prior attack), was dispatched in early September 490 BC to land at the Bay of Marathon and threaten an overland attack towards Athens.
		Artaphernes took part of the Persian army and laid siege to Eretria.
		This meant that Artaphernes was now free to move, and might attack Athens.
	www.crystalinks.com /grecopersianwars.html (4214 words)

	490. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Themistocles was elected general (strategos) at Athens and began agitating for a larger navy.
		Artaphernes besieged Eretria on Euboea, which fell through treachery.
		Datis, accompanied by the aged former tyrant Hippias, landed at Marathon, a center of Peisistratid strength.
	www.bartleby.com /67/188.html (280 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Graeco-Persian Wars: The Ionian Revolt
		He appealed to Artaphernes, the Persian satrap of Lydia, (and a brother of High King Darius I), for men and ships to help in the invasion.
		The defeat was a huge embarrassment for Artaphernes, who had been promised an easy victory by Aristagoras.
		Artaphernes called regular assemblies of the heads of the Ionian states so they could air their grievances to him, and the burden of tribute was reduced.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A9902298 (3132 words)

	Greco-Persian Wars Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An amphibious force under Datis and Artaphernes razed Eretria but was defeated in Marathon a few days later by general Miltiades of Athens.
		In 499 BC, instigated by Aristagoras in Miletus, the Ionian Revolt broke out when a force of 200 triremes manned by Ionian crew that Artaphernes, satrap of Sardis, had sent to Naxos under Aristagoras's command failed to overturn the democrats and restore the oligarchs.
		In 490 BC Datis and Artaphernes gathered another Persian expeditionary force in Cilicia with the intention to go to Attica and Eretria to punish them for their assistance to the Ionians.
	www.hostilities.org /encyclopedia/Greco-Persian_Wars (6064 words)

	The Persian Invasion of Greece & the Battle of Marathon - (CAIS) ©
		The Persian general, Artaphernes, was now without most of the cavalry, and a large portion of the infantry, but he still retained a large number of archers.
		With this in mind, Miltiades set forth a plan for attempting to quickly defeat Artaphernes' force so that the Athenians would be able to return to Athens to meet Datis' force.
		When Artaphernes arrived with his battered and depleted, force, there was only one course of action left for the Persian fleet, and that was to return to Asia.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/hakhamaneshian/marathon.htm (1588 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		As for Histiaeus, when his hopes in this matter were disappointed, he persuaded the Chians to carry him back to Miletus; but the Milesians were too well pleased at having got quit of Aristagoras to be anxious to receive another tyrant into their country; besides which they had now tasted liberty.
		Artaphernes, however, satrap of Sardis, and his captor Harpagus, on this very account- because they were afraid that, if he escaped, he would be again received into high favour by the king- put him to death as soon as he arrived at Sardis.
		He likewise took the measurement of their whole country in parasangs- such is the name which the Persians give to a distance of thirty furlongs- and settled the tributes which the several cities were to pay, at a rate that has continued unaltered from the time when Artaphernes fixed it down to the present day.
	classics.mit.edu /Herodotus/history.6.vi.html (10080 words)

	DATIS
		In reality, the aims of the expedition of Datis and Artaphernes were to add the Aegean islands to the empire, and, in doing so, to create a buffer zone between Ionia and the Greek mainland.
		Although an Athenian army came to block the road to the south, it did not dare to attack the Persians, who were able to plunder the country for five days.
		It was a rearguard action, and we know for certain that Artaphernes remained in the king's favor; it is likely that Datis had the same experience.
	datis.blogfa.com /8403.aspx (854 words)

	Happy Dogs Clup, The biggest dog resource center,breeds,cloths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 490 BC, Datis and Artaphernes were sent in a maritime operation to subjugate the Cyclades islands in the central Aegean and punish Eretria and Athens for their assistance in the Ionian revolt.
		Hippias fled to Sardis to the court of the nearest Persian satrap, Artaphernes, and promised control of Athens to the Persians if they were to restore him.
		Some claim that Artaphernes took part of the Persian army and laid siege to Eretria, while the remainder of the army crossed with Datis and landed in the Bay of Marathon.
	www.happydogsclup.com /sdmc_Battle_of_Marathon (5553 words)

	Summary of and commentary on Herodotus' Histories, book 6
		(not to be confused with his father Artaphernes, who had held the same position).
		Their first target is Naxos, the island that Artaphernes' father had once tried to occupy (above).
		In reality, the aims of the expedition of Datis and the younger Artaphernes were different: to add the islands to the empire, and, in doing so, creating a buffer zone between Ionia and the Greek mainland.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodotus/logos6_19.html (1455 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 934
		Artaphernes, satrap of Sardis, summoned deputies from all the Ionian cities.
		He forced them to enter into agreements with one another, not to harass each other by force of arms but to settle their disputes by arbitration.
		He likewise took the meaurement of their whole country in parasangs (such is the name which the Persians give to a distance of thirty furlongs), and settled the tributes which the several cities were to pay, at a rate that has continued unaltered from the time when Artaphernes fixed it down to the present day.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_934.htm (178 words)

	Wikinfo \| Battle of Marathon
		In order to accomplish the first, Darius planned to take Eretria, which would offer little resistance, and whose fall would terrify the Athenians.
		To accomplish the second, Darius's army, now led by Artaphernes, son of a satrap of Sardes, and Datis, a Median admiral (Mardonius had been injured in the prior attack), was dispatched in early September 490 BC to land at the Bay of Marathon and threaten an overland attack towards Athens.
		The courier arrived in Sparta on September 9, and the Spartans agreed to help, but pointed out that they could not go to war until the Carneian festival ended on the full moon of September 19-20.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Marathon (1280 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Military History \| Greco-Persian Wars: Xerxes' Invasion
		This force, commanded by Datis and Artaphernes, captured the island of Euboea and used it as a staging area for the invasion of the Greek mainland.
		Datis and Artaphernes intended to fight the Greeks at Marathon with 20,000 men while the city of Athens, only lightly defended, would fall easy prey to the second Persian army.
		The fact that the Athenians chose to meet their enemy at the point of its entry into their country rather than defending the gates of their city is in itself remarkable.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/military_history/3035381.html (1042 words)

	DATIS
		One famous bearer of this name is known, Datis the Mede, though little information on him is available (Herodotus, 6.94.2; Diodorus, 10.27.1); he seems to have been a kind of specialist on Greek affairs under Darius I (522-486 B.C.E.).
		Together with Artaphernes, son of Artaphernes (see ARTAPHRENEÚS) and nephew of Darius, he led the large Persian amphibious expedition against Greece in 490 B.C.E., with the goal of subduing Eretria and Athens.
		Although he is mentioned together with Artaphernes several times (Herodotus, 6.119.1, 7.8b.3, 7.10b.1, 7.74.2), Datis seems to have been the actual commander, for he alone is named in the narrative of the campaign (cf.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v7/v7f2/v7f212.html (874 words)

	The story of Agyrion in the Sicily Island - www.agyrion.it
		Histaeus persuaded Darius to send him to Sardis to help; but suspected of treachery by Artaphernes, he fled from there to Chios, where he lied that the reason he urged the revolt was because Darius intended to transfer Ionians to Phoenicia; his messengers to friends in Sardis were intercepted, and their recipients were executed.
		The islands were thoroughly searched by human chains of men holding hands, and the best-looking girls and boys were sent to the Persian court for the harem or to be castrated.
		Artaphernes ordered all the Ionians to settle their differences by arbitration instead of war, and he established the taxes they were to pay to Persia, which were not changed for the next half century.
	www.agyrion.it /uk.htm (19629 words)

	The Persian Wars by Herodotus: Book 6 - ERATO
		Moreover it pleased him well to have a pretext for carrying war into Greece, that so he might reduce all those who had refused to give him earth and water.
		Having left these injunctions, he sailed away; but the Delians failed to restore the statue; and it was not till twenty years afterwards that the Thebans, warned by an oracle, themselves brought it back to Delium.
		[6.119] As for the Eretrians, whom Datis and Artaphernes had carried away captive, when the fleet reached Asia, they were taken up to Susa.
	www.parstimes.com /history/herodotus/persian_wars/erato.html (17284 words)

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