In pursuit of these funds he traveled to the Thracian Chersonese and attacked Selymbria. He sailed north to the land he owned in the Thracian Chersonese. Miltiades accepted the offer and became tyrant of the Chersonese. Ptolemy named the Malay Peninsula the Golden Chersonese. The author of the project of St. Vladimir Cathedral in Chersonese was academician David Grimm. Thus, Miltiades initially faced a hostile reception for his tyrannical rule in the Thracian Chersonese. When the men of rank from the Chersonese came to console him, he imprisoned them. He sailed to the Hellespont, landing near Lysimachia at the neck of the Thracian Chersonese. Miltiades became the ruler of the Greek city-states of the Thracian Chersonese in 555 b.c.e. I was exiled, eventually arriving in Tauric Chersonese in May 655. In 404 BC, the Athenians gathered their remaining ships at Aegospotami (near the Thracian Chersonese). In 465, after cleruchizing the Chersonese, they tried to gain control of Thasos. Demosthenes delivered "On the Chersonese" and convinced the Athenians not to recall Diopeithes.