Editing 494 BC (section)

==== Greece ====
* The Phoenician allies of the Persians retaliate fiercely against the Greeks, whom they perceive as pirates, unleashing savage reprisals..
* The [[Thracians]] and [[Scythians]] drive [[Miltiades the Younger]] from the [[Chersonesos Taurica|Chersonesos]]. Miltiades loads five boats with his treasures and makes for Athens. One of the boats, captained by Miltiades' eldest son, [[Metiochos]] is captured. Metiochos is taken as a lifelong prisoner to Persia.<ref>Herodotus, lib vi. c. 41</ref>
* The [[Sparta]]n king, [[Cleomenes I]] inflicts a severe defeat on [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] at [[Battle of Sepeia|Sepeia]] near [[Tiryns]] (approximate date).<ref>There is some uncertainty about the date: see ''Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age'' by Eric W. Robinson, pp. 7–9</ref>