Quick Bios! Athens

• So-lawn
• "He was a man!"
• From Athens
• Created the laws of Athens, told them no one but himself could change anything in the laws for ten years, and then he skidaddled and traveled.
• Met Croesus and told him "You cannot tell if your life was happy until your life is over." He did not believe Croesus was the happiest man alive.

• Exiled from Athens
• Came back to Athens around 480 BC/E during the Persian Wars
• Put in charge of the navy/ships
• Convinces Eurydiades to stay at the isle of Salamis to fight there
• Sent letters secretly to Xerxes to convince him to attack the Greeks, so that the Greeks couldn't run away.
• Fought in the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC/E
• Eventually got kicked out of Athens years later
• Went to Persia
• Died there, either from disease or poison or both.

• Al-kib-ee-awww-deez
• From Athens, super beautiful
• When he wrestled as a child he would bite his opponents and they would say "You bite like a woman!" and he would say "No. I bite like a lion."
• During a game of dice, also in childhood, he threw himself in front of a horse and cart shouting "You on if you must!" because he was winning the game and didn't want to lose.
• He was very good at public speaking.
• He was accused of betraying the Athenians.
• He ran away and joined the enemy, Sparta, during the Pelopponesian Wars. Why should Sparta trust him? Because Athens, his city, is one of justice. Athens is being unjust. Therefore, it is no longer his city.
• During the fight over Miletus, the isle of Chios, and the isle of Lesbos, he makes friends with some Athenians on the isle of Samos.
• Astyochus, admiral of the Spartan fleet, is given orders to kill him.
• He flees to seek help from Persia, but before he gets there the house he is staying in is set on fire and he is arrowed and javelined to death.