Editing Cimon (section)

===Battle of the Eurymedon===
[[File:Cimon takes command of the Greek Fleet, illustration from 'Hutchinson's History of the Nations', 1915.jpg|thumb|Cimon takes command of the Greek Fleet.]]
Around 466 BC, Cimon carried the war against Persia into [[Anatolia|Asia Minor]] and decisively defeated the Persians at the [[Battle of the Eurymedon]] on the [[Eurymedon River]] in [[Pamphylia]]. Cimon's land and sea forces captured the Persian camp and destroyed or captured the entire Persian fleet of 200 [[trireme]]s manned by [[Phoenicia]]ns. And he established an Athenian colony nearby called [[Amphipolis]] with 10,000 settlers.<ref name="thuc-hist"/> Many new allies of Athens were then recruited into the Delian League, such as the trading city of [[Phaselis]] on the [[Lycia]]n-Pamphylian border.

There is a view amongst some historians that while in Asia Minor, Cimon negotiated a peace between the League and the Persians after his victory at the Battle of the Eurymedon. This may help to explain why the [[Peace of Callias]] negotiated by his brother-in-law in 450 BC is sometimes called the Peace of Cimon as Callias' efforts may have led to a renewal of Cimon's earlier treaty. He had served Athens well during the [[Persian Wars]] and according to [[Plutarch]]: "In all the qualities that war demands he was fully the equal of [[Themistocles]] and his own father Miltiades".<ref name="plutcimo-cal"/><ref name="thuc-hist"/>