Miltiades the Elder

He is most famous for travelling to the Thracian Chersonese (now Gallipoli) where, at the behest of the local peoples, he ruled as a tyrant.

[4] They travelled to the Oracle of Delphi for advice, and were told to return to Thrace with a Greek colonist as their commander.

[5] The Dolonci asked Miltiades to take on this role, due to the hospitality he showed them on their return trip through Athens.

[10] This wall was completed relatively early in Miltiades' reign, most likely prior to 546 BC,[11] and was designed to keep the Apsinthians out of the peninsula.

[13] In the Thracian Chersonese, an annual contest in horse-racing and gymnastics was then inaugurated in Miltiades' memory;[13] after Stesagoras' murder, Lampsacenes were barred from these games.