The news spread like wildfire on every side, and was proclaimed aloud in places where the defeat of Ephesus was never even whispered.
Everywhere revolt burst out.

The Greeks of the Hellespont--not only those of Asia but likewise those of Europe--the Carians and Caunians of the south-western coast--even the distant Cyprians broke into rebellion; the Scythians took heart and made a plundering raid through the Great King's Thracian territories;4 vassal monarchs, like Miltiades, assumed independence, and helped themselves to some of the fragments of the Empire that seemed falling to pieces.

If a great man, a Miltiades or a Leondias, had been at the head of the movement, and if it had been decently supported from the European side, a successful issue might probably have been secured.
But Aristagoras was unequal to the occasion; and the struggle for independence, which had promised so fair, was soon put down.

Despite a naval victory gained by the Greeks over the Phoenician fleet off Cyprus, that island was recovered by the Persians within a year.

Despite a courage and a perseverance worthy of a better fate, the Carians were soon afterwards forced to succumb.