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134-5 (which Bergk took to indicate that he appeared as a character in Nomoi);
300 (a reference to the kyrbeis on which his laws and those of Draco were
recorded, now supposedly converted into firewood) with Olson-Seaberg 2018
ad loc.; Ar. Nu. 1187 (Solon and by extension his laws as deeply democratic);
Av. 1660-6 (quotation of a law on the legal status of bastards); Eub. fr. 57.6
(“Solon” as the name of a specific throw of the dice; from Kybeutai); Alex. frr. 9
(a character in a play entitled Aisdpos); 131 (invoked in passing as the greatest
lawgiver of all time) with Arnott 1996 ad loc., offering further references in 4th-
century prose; Philem. fr. 3.1, 4 (allegedly responsible for the introduction of
organized brothel prostitution in Athens as a way of keeping the city’s young
men out of trouble). See in general Davies 1971. 322-4; Oliva 1973; Rhodes
1981. 118-20; the essays collected in Blok and Lardinois 2006; Hendrickson
2013 (focussing on the complicated relationship between the poems and the
biographical information in the pseudo-Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia). For
Solon’s laws in particular, see Leäo and Rhodes 2015. For his poetry, substan-
tial fragments of which survive, see also Irwin 2005; Noussia-Fantuzzi 2010.
Miltiades (PA 10212; PAA 653820) son of Cimon was a member of the
wealthy, powerful Philiad genos, which came to be closely associated with the
Pisistratid tyranny, on the one hand, and with something like despotic control
of the Chersonese, on the other. He himself was archon under the Pisistradid
tyrants in 524/3 BCE (IG I3 1031.19). Sometime in the mid-510s BCE, Hippias
sent Miltiades to the Chersonese to take power there (Hdt. 6.39.1). When he
was driven out in 493 BCE in the aftermath of the Ionian Revolt (which he
appears to have joined), he returned to Athens, where he was tried for having
ruled tyrannically but was acquitted (Hdt. 6.41.4, 104). Miltiades was one of
the Athenian generals at Marathon (see fr. *106 n.), and was wounded in
489 BCE in the course of a botched expedition against Paros. The Athenians
responded to the failure by putting him on trial for deceiving the people (i. e.
by promising them a great victory), finding him guilty, and assessing him
a fine of 50 talents; he died before he could pay it (Hdt. 6.132-6; [D.] 26.6).
Cimon (PA 8429; PAA 569795) was his son, Elpinike (PA 4678; PAA 387165) his
daughter; see fr. 221.2-3 (nasty claims of an incestuous relationship between
the two children) with n. For Miltiades and the Philiads in general, see Hdt.
6.103; Hammond 1956; Wade-Gery 1971; Davies 1971. 293-312, esp. 301-3;
Austin 1990. 303-4; Sears 2013. 59-74, esp. 64-70.
Aristides (PA 1695; PAA 165170) son of Lysimachos of the deme Alopeke,
likely born into a wealthy family192 by 520 BCE, was eponymous archon in
489/8 BCE (Plu. Arist. 5.7; Marm.Par. FGrH 239 A 49). Ostracized in 482 BCE

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Plu. Arist. 25.6 makes him a cousin of Callias.