Cimon, called "Coalemos" (
ancient Greek Κοάλεμος,
Koàlemos, "booby"), son of Stesagoras, was a member the
Athenian clan of
Philaidae, step-brother of
Miltiades the Elder and father of
Stesagoras, both
tyrants of the
Thracian Chersonese (now the
Gallipoli Peninsula). Cimon was a well-known chariot race organizer, winning three consecutive times the
chariot race, one of the most important competitions of the
Ancient Olympic Games. In fact, the renown of the victory in the chariot race was given to the organizer of the team, who was funding the chariot, breeding the horses and hiring the charioteer. Banned from Athens for political reasons, Cimon was forgiven and called back to his homeland by the
tyrant Peisistratos since he dedicated to the tyrant his second victory at the Olympic Games, but when, four years later, he won again the chariot race, the envious tyrant sons,
Hippias and
Hipparchus, murdered him in a night ambush. We know from
Herodotus that Cimon Coalemus was buried across the road called “Through the Holloon" outside Athens, close to his mares that won the three Olympic prizes. Cimon Coalemos was the father of
Miltiades and the grandfather of
Cimon, two of the most important
strategoi of Athens. ==Notes==