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467 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Perseus Sculpture Catalog entry Ravenna Miltiades
   As with the Portrait of Themistokles, the Portrait of Miltiades is thought by some to copy a fourth century (ca. 330) original that intentionally depicted Miltiades in the early Classical style, that is, the style of the era in which he died. (21.93)

2. Reginald Walter Macan, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books with Introduction and Commentary book 7, chapter 133
   Hdt. has another crime to punish Miltiades for, cp. 6. 135, and could not have endorsed it Hdt. will not see the (14.97)

3. Perseus Sculpture Catalog entry Portrait of Miltiades
   A portrait of Miltiades is said to have been set up at Delphi only a few decades after his death, probably in the 460s: Miltiades was included among generals, Eponymous Heroes, and gods/goddesses in the Marathon group, by Pheidias, dedicated at Delphi as a tithe from the spoils of Marathon (). (14.11)

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2 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 28, object 1
   The exact spot where they lay was unknown, but he was believed to have been buried in the Isle of Scyros in the AEgean Sea. Cymon, the son of Miltiades, one day saw an eagle upon a rising ground in the island, pecking at the earth with her beak, and tearing it with her talons; and upon digging on the spot he found the body of a warrior of more than ordinary size. (3.15)

2. London: Volume 2 (ed. Charles Knight) chapter 12, page 183
   Even thus, as still the blue Aegean tumbles among its sunny isles, did the Ocean, from childhood to blind old age, paint itself to the mind of Homer; even as at this day the mountains look on Marathon, and Marathon looks on the sea, did that scenery send down its melancholy grandeur into the eyes and the souls of Miltiades and his little host encamped there three-and-twenty centuries ago. (1.98)