Cimon takes command of the Greek fleet of the Delian League of Athens before his expedition in 466 BC during the course of which he destroyed the Persian fleet and army at the Battle of the Eurymedon river. Cimon, 510 – 450 BC. Athenian statesman and strategos, or army leader, in mid-5th century BC Greece.

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Cimon takes command of the Greek fleet of the Delian League of Athens before his expedition in 466 BC during the course of which he destroyed the Persian fleet and army at the Battle of the Eurymedon river. Cimon, 510 – 450 BC. Athenian statesman and strategos, or army leader, in mid-5th century BC Greece. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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