Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 176. Not illustrated. Chapters: Achaemenid Cappadocia, Achaemenid Satrapies in Anatolia, Anabasis (Xenophon), Ionian Revolt, Battle of Cunaxa, Cyrus the Younger, Artaxerxes Ii of Persia, Battle of Lade, the Warriors, Siege of Naxos, Ariaeus, Mardonius, Ten Thousand, Battle of Pteria, Histiaeus, Thimbron, Artaphernes, Celaenae, Miltiades the Younger, Phrynichus, Macrones, Dionysius the Phocaean, Aristagoras, Phasians, Chalybes, Pyrrhichios, Silanus of Ambracia, Onesilus, Mossynoeci, Hellespontine Phrygia, Carpaea, Seuthes Ii, Megabates, Timasitheus of Trapezus, Median Wall, Thalatta! Thalatta!, Coes of Mytilene, Eualcides, Maisades, Siege of Sardis, Carduchoi. Excerpt: The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 493 BC. At the heart of the rebellion was the dissatisfaction of the Greek cities of Asia Minor with the tyrants appointed by Persia to rule them, along with the individual actions of two Milesian tyrants, Histiaeus and Aristagoras. The cities of Ionia had been conquered by Persia in c. 540 BC, and thereafter were ruled by native tyrants, nominated by the Persian satrap in Sardis. In 499 BC the then tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, launched a joint expedition with the Persian satrap Artaphernes to conquer Naxos, in an attempt to bolster his position. The mission was a debacle, and sensing his imminent removal as tyrant, Aristagoras chose to incite the whole of Ionia into rebellion against the Persian king Darius the Great. In 498 BC, supported by troops from Athens and Eretria, the Ionians marched on, captured, and burnt Sardis. However, on their return journey to Ionia, they were followed by Persian troops, and decisively beaten at the Battle of Ephesus. This campaign was the only offensi...