Cimon was the son of Miltiades, the well-known hero of Marathon, and of Hegesipyle, daughter of the Thracian king Olorus, and was also related to the historian Thucydides. His family had played an important role in civil cases of Athens and Cimon himself, for many scholars represents the exemplary Athenian citizen of the first half of the 5thcentury B.C. |
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