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=== Early years=== Cimon was born into Athenian nobility in 510 BC. He was a member of the [[Philaidae]] clan, from the [[deme]] of [[Laciadae]] (Lakiadai). His grandfather was [[Cimon Coalemos]], who won three [[Ancient Olympic Games|Olympic]] victories with his [[four-horse chariot]] and was assassinated by the sons of [[Peisistratus]].{{sfnp|''DGRB&M''|1867|p=749}} His father was the celebrated Athenian general [[Miltiades the Younger|Miltiades]]{{sfnp|''EB''|1878}} and his mother was Hegesipyle, daughter of the [[Thrace|Thracian]] king [[Olorus]] and a relative of the historian [[Thucydides]].{{sfnp|''EB''|1911|p=368}} While Cimon was a young man, his father was fined 50{{nbsp}}[[Talent (measurement)|talents]] after an accusation of [[treason]] by the Athenian state. As Miltiades could not afford to pay this amount, he was put in jail, where he died in 489 BC. Cimon inherited this debt and, according to Diodorus, some of his father's unserved prison sentence{{sfnp|''EB''|1878}} in order to obtain his body for burial.{{sfnp|''DGRB&M''|1867|p=750}} As the head of his household, he also had to look after his sister or half-sister [[Elpinice]]. According to [[Plutarch]], the wealthy [[Callias]] took advantage of this situation by proposing to pay Cimon's debts for Elpinice's hand in marriage. Cimon agreed.<ref name="plutcimo-cal">[[Plutarch]], Lives. Life of Cimon.([https://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/plutarch/plutcimo.html University of Calgary]/[[s:Lives/Cimon|Wikisource]])</ref><ref name="nepos">[[Cornelius Nepos]], [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/nepos.htm Lives of Eminent Commanders]</ref><ref name="plutthem-mit">[[Plutarch]], Lives. Life of Themistocles. ([http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/themisto.html University of Massachusetts]/[[s:Lives/Themistocles|Wikisource]])</ref> Cimon in his youth had a reputation of being dissolute, a hard drinker, and blunt and unrefined; it was remarked that in this latter characteristic he was more like a Spartan than an Athenian.<ref name=":0">Plutarch, ''Cimon'' 481.</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=A history of Greece to the death of Alexander the Great |edition=3rd |last1=Bury|first1=J. B.|last2=Meiggs|first2=Russell|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1956|location=Oxford|pages=343}}</ref>
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