Quick Bios! Miletus

• Given Miletus by Darius
• Is a tyrant
• Starts to fortify Miletus
• Artaphernes notices and convinces Darius this is bad.
• Darius brings him to Susa to be his best friend
• Histiaeus sends a secret message via the tattoo on a man's head (shaved him, tattooed him, waited for the hair to grow, sent him away) to Aristagoras, his nephew and son-in-law.
• Convinces Aristagoras to rebel against Darius.
• Artaphernes finds out.
• Aristagoras fails, Histiaeus gets captured by Artaphernes and beheaded.
• His head is sent to Darius who cries and has his head washed and buried properly.

• Son-in-law and nephew to Histiaeus
• Convinced by Histiaeus to rebel against Darius
• Gives Miletus its freedom in order to get them on his side
• Goes to Sparta and asks for help from Cleomenes but fails
• Convinces some Athenians to help him
• Miletus refuses to take him back because now that they have tasted freedom they will not go back to tyranny
• Aristagoras sends letters to his contacts in Susa, but Artaphernes intercepts them.
• Aristagoras killed by Artaphernes.