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 | | From another wife, he was said to be the father of Oeneus, the Attic hero eponym of one of the ten tribes later instituted by Cleisthenes. | | | Cleisthenes was a member of the Alcmæonidæ family, a famed powerful family of Athens ( Pericles had ties with this family by his mother Agariste, who was Cleisthenes' niece), and, by his mother, the grandson of another Cleisthenes, tyrant of ( Aristotle 's Constitution of the Athenians, 20-21 ; Herodotus ' Histories, V, 66-69). | | | A detailed account of this organization can be found with the map of Attica, elsewhere on this site. |
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| | The latter had been chief archon when the Athenian noble Cylon had made an unsuccessful bid to seize the Acropolis and make himself tyrant (c. | | | The Spartans had no wish to see a democratic Athens, but they misjudged the mood of the people. | | | Nothing more is heard of his father, who probably died before Peisistratus. |
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| | Cleisthenes believed in the equal rights of all citizens, and as a consequence had many enemies in the oligarchy. |
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| | This Cleisthenes overthrew Hippias, the son and successor of Pisistratus, in 508 BC. | | | Cleisthenes was, at first, opposed by some who felt the curse made the Alcmaeonidae ineligible to rule; the Spartan king Cleomenes I even turned against Cleisthenes and the latter was briefly exiled once more. | | | He had bribed the oracle at Delphi (which the Alcmaeonidae had helped to build while they were in exile) to convince the Spartans to help him, which they reluctantly did. |
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| | B.C. was the time of the tyrants Cleisthenes of Sicyon in the Peloponnesus, Polycrates of Samos, and Pisistratus of Athens, followed by his sons Hipparchus and Hippias. | | | The tyrants of Sicily were the products of more or less the same causes as those in Greece, but tyranny was prolonged by the threat of Carthaginian attack, which facilitated the rise of military leaders with the people united behind them. | | | B.C. saw the rise of the tyrant Cypselus and his son, Periander, of Corinth, and the 6th cent. |
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| | A grandson of Cleisthenes of Sicyon on his mother's... | | | His most noted work was a statue of andldquo;Fortune,andrdquo; which he made for the city of Antioch (founded 300 andBC;). | | | Cleisthenes of Sicyon (early 6th century bc), absolute ruler, or tyrant, of the ancient Greek city of Sicyon. |
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| | Inhabited in Mycenaean times and later invaded by Dorians, Sicyon was subject to Argos for several... | | | tyrant of the ancient Greek city of Sicyon. | | | He belonged to the non-Dorian family of Orthagoras, who had established the tyranny in Sicyon with the support of the Ionian section of the inhabitants. |
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| | Tyrant in Sicyon and one of the leaders in the Aphictyoinic League, created to protect the temple of | | | This led to new games, and the tyrant himself won a chariot race in 582 BC. | | | The rival city Crisa had started taking tolls from pilgrims to Delphi, which led to a sacred war which Cleisthenes army won. |
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| | family through his mother, a niece of Cleisthenes. | | | As strategos, or military commander, c.454 he campaigned unsuccessfully against Sicyon and Oeniadae, and his plans to bring these Peloponnesian regions under Athenian control failed. | | | He first came to prominence as an opponent of the |
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| | Sicyon was founded by Argos and attained its greatest power under the tyrant Cleisthenes in the 6th cent. | | | B.C. the Sicyonic school of painting, founded by Eupompus, produced such artists as Pamphilus and Apelles. | | | In the archaic period of Greek art (625–480 |
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