A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

i6o The Ionic Revolt
The fate of were conducted to Susa; and king Darius did to them
sians.
Ib. 20.
lb. 21.
HO other evil, but settled them upon the sea called Erythraean,
in the city of Ampe, by which the Tigris flows when
it runs out into the sea.
Of the Milesian land the Persians
chemselves kept the surroundings of the city and the plain,
but the heights they gave to the Carians of Pedasa for a
possession.
Effect on the When the Milesians suffered this treatment from the
Athenians.
Persians, the men of Sybaris, who were dwelling in Laos
and Scidros, being deprived of their own city, did not repay
like with like; for when Sybaris was taken by the men
of Croton, the Milesians all from youth upwards shaved
their heads and put on great mourning; for these cities
were more than all
others of which we know bound together
by ties of friendship. Not like the Sybarites
were the Athenians; for these made it clear that they were
grieved at the capture of Miletus, both in many other
ways and also by this, that when Phrynichus had composed
a drama called the ^'Capture of Miletus^' and had
put it on the stage, the body of spectators fell to weeping,
and the Athenians moreover fined the poet a thousand
drachmas on the ground that he had reminded them of
their own calamities; and they ordered also that no one
in future should represent this drama.
STUDIES
1. What motive had Aristagoras to revolt (cf. Greece, iii; Ancient
World, 1 60)? What was the advice of Hecataeus? Why were the
tyrants now deposed?
2. Why did Aristagoras go to Sparta for aid? By what arguments
did he try to persuade Cleomenes?
What had he to say of the Persians?
Why did he give the king a lesson in geography? Why were
the Lacedaemonians unwilling to attempt the conquest of Asia?
What part had Gorge in the negotiations, and what idea do we get