He was with the Persians at the battle of Marathon and is said to have died on the way back at Lemnos in 490 BC.
The ex-tyrant of Athens Hippias who the Persians intended to re-install in Athens after they captured it.
Tyrant of Athens in the second half of the 6th Century BCE. Appointed to resolve looming civil war between the aristocrats and the repressed lower class.
Solon (594 BC)Cleisthenes (508/7 BC)Ephialtes (462 BC) These three developed Athenian democracy.Peisistratus ( tyrannical rule )Ephialtes revised Cleisthenes' constitution relatively peacefully.Hipparchus,Hippias, killed by Harmodius and AristogeitonHarmodius and Aristogeiton, who restored freedom.Pericles; Probably the greatest leader of them all.Eucleides
If the Persians had won the battle of Marathon, they would have carried out their plan to appoint exiled Athenian tyrant Hippias to rule the city and keep it from interfering in the Greek cities within the Persian Empire. For a period there would have been a more stable era, but the Greek cities would have continued fighting amongst themselves, as they indeed continued to do after they repelled the subsequent Persian invasion ten years later, so little would have changed.
Big different
In reaction to the tyranny of Hippias.
This is no firm date of birth recorded for Hippias, but we do know that he died in 490 BC.He was "Tyrant of Athens" from 528/527 to 510 BC, so it's assumed that he was born sometime in the 550's or 540's BC.
He was with the Persians at the battle of Marathon and is said to have died on the way back at Lemnos in 490 BC.
Hippias, the tyrant of Athens who was expelled, and went to Persia for help. King Darius I sent him with the Persian punitive expedition against Athens in 490 BCE to take control of Athens again and keep it quiet. The expedition failed at Marathon, and Hippias died there.
Diagoras, Gorgias, Protagoras, Antiphon, Prodicus, Critias of Athens, Hippias of Elis etc
The ex-tyrant of Athens Hippias who the Persians intended to re-install in Athens after they captured it.
In 527-526 after the tyrant Peisistratus died he was replaced jointly by his sons Hipparchus and Hippias.
The first democracy in Athens was installed in 507 BCE by Cleisthenes in the face of an attempt by the oligarchs to regain power after the expulsion of the tyrant Hippias..
Sparta helped Athens expel its tyrant Hippias, providing a force to besiege him and force his exit into exile in Persia.
The Persians had brought along the Athenian ex-tyrant Hippias who had been ousted twenty years before, who they intended to have rule Athens for them and keep it quiet. The Athenians would in due course have got rid of Hippias again and gone back to their own ways. So the history of Greece might have just paused for a decade then gone on just the same.
Tyrant of Athens in the second half of the 6th Century BCE. Appointed to resolve looming civil war between the aristocrats and the repressed lower class.