Cimon

Cimon Cimon was an Athenian General of the 5th Century B.C. Cimon's father, Miltiades, died in prison when he could not pay a fine of fifty talents where he died, and his mother was named Hegesipyle, the daughter of King Olorus of Thrace. As a young man, Cimon had a reputation for being a drunk and not very bright. They accused him, in his younger years, of cohabiting with his own sister Elpinice, who, indeed, otherwise had no very clear reputation, but was reported to have been over intimate with Polygnotus, the painter. Some affirm that Elpinice lived with her brother, not secretly, but as his married wife, her poverty excluding her from any suitable match. But afterward, when Callias, one of the richest men of Athens, fell in love with her, and proffered to pay the fine the father was condemned in, if he could obtain the daughter in marriage, with Elpinice's own consent, Cimon betrothed her to Callias. No Greek before Cimon ever carried the scene of war so far from their own country. In politics, Cimon was pro-Sparta and the aristocracy, and it was only during one of his absences from the city that Ephialtes and cimon, war, persians, out, athens, athenian, against, after, sparta, own, home, during, died, time, spartans, son, public, poor, pericles, people, pay, one, money, indeed, help, forces, followed, fine, daughter, being, before, athenians, very, until, two, transferred