[eleni121]

Herodotus says,

"Miltiades' words prevailed. The vote of Callimachus the War Archon was cast on the right side, and the decision to fight was made."
( Book 6 sect 109)

And let's not forget the strategic planning of Themistocles.

And you know what happened to Militiades. After the victory, he tried unsuccessfully to regain control of the Aegean islands that had capitulated to the Persians in 489BC, but he did not have a sufficient naval force to accomplish this task.

Upon failing to achieve the blockade of Paros, he was imprisoned at Athens for his defeat, dying soon afterward of a wound received at Paros.

This is how the victor of Marathon rewarded.

[Verginius Rufus]

Herodotus is our earliest and most important source for the battle of Marathon but he was writing some decades later when the commanders would have been long dead...if he spoke to any participants in the battle they were probably ordinary soldiers who may not have had a very good understanding of how the command decisions were made. At any rate there is some doubt about how accurately Herodotus portrays the role of the war archon or polemarch in 490.

The Painted Colonnade or Stoa Poikile in Athens had a depiction of the battle which is known from Pausanias' Description of Greece (2nd century A.D.). According to Pausanias, the painting showed the hero Marathon, Theseus, Athena, Heracles, Callimachus, Miltiades, and the hero Echetlos. Herodotus leaves out most of the supernatural stuff.

After Miltiades' unsuccessful attack on Paros, he was put on trial, and Pericles' father tried to have him condemned to death.

[eleni121]

This is how the victor of Marathon rewarded

This is how the victor of Marathon was rewarded