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Cimon and the Persians in Athens
Cimon leads an alliance base in athens to remove the persian threat from Greece. He wages many campaigns and defeats the persians, but is then ostracized by his own people. Cimon himself goes off on campaign again against the persians - he ses away while on campaign. But just about a year after that, another athenian embassy goes to persia,. It's very different from the embassy which had gone earlier that we spoke about. On this occasion, the athenians seem to make peace with the persians; they agree that they won't be involved in any more ties against the greeks. And it's this peace which allows pericles,