Tom Holland
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There's no way we're carrying on with this.
You've essentially, you know, you told us this would be easy.
It isn't.
You know, you're in real trouble.
We're heading back.
And so Aristagoras now seems screwed.
He's skint, he's blown all his money.
Miletus, meanwhile, is absolutely seething with kind of revolutionary talk by this point.
And of course, he's messed up his relations with the Persians.
And none of this is good.
And so when Megabetes gets back to Sardis and reports to Artafernes, the Persian governor, this has been a complete screw up.
Artafernes decides,
No good.
We're going to dismiss Aristagoras.
He can no longer remain as tyrant, the tyrannos of Miletus.
But Aristagoras has anticipated that this is what the Persians will do.
And so he has moved fast and...
already abdicated his tyranny.
He stood down.
He said, actually, tyrannies are awful.