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| | Reading the Rise of Pisistratus: Herodotus 1.56-68 |
 | | Pisistratus' final invasion seems to have been written to remind the reader of this battle and to suggest some interesting parallels and contrasts with it. | | | His rise is a variation on the conventional motif of the three brothers, the youngest (and weakest) of whom rises to be tyrant; Pisistratus is weaker than his rivals because he claims the men beyond the hills as his supporters, whereas they have the plain and coast. | | | Pisistratus then grows up to form a third political party to match Lycurgus and Megacles and rises from this situation of stasis to become tyrant. |
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/gray.html
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| | A Commentary on Athens |
| | Pisistratus attempts successfully a coup by self inflicting a wound and claiming that his life is in danger which led him to be granted a team of body guards. | | | In particular Pisistratus was friendly with the Spartans which implies that there is no military threat from any of the Peloponnesian League. | | | It was easy for them to take control because the people in the city saw Pisistratus as a good thing as these people were not aligned to any important family and thus stood to gain political power. |
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| | The day came when Pisistratus deliberately wounded himself, drove into the market place in a chariot and tried to rouse the people with the story that his enemies had organized a conspiracy to murder him because of his political programme. | | | The two men were at first great friends, party because they were related and partly because of the youthful good looks of Pisistratus, to whom, according to some writers, Solon was passionately devoted. | | | Solon also attempted to write a long poem dealing with the story or legend of the lost Atlantis, because the subject, according to what he had heard from the learned men of Sais in Egypt, had a special connexion with Athens. |
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http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/Images2/cciv243.Solon.html
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| | The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides |
| | The commons had heard how oppressive the tyranny of Pisistratus and his sons had become before it ended, and further that that had been put down at last, not by themselves and Harmodius, but by the Lacedaemonians, and so were always in fear and took everything suspiciously. | | | There they found the Salaminia come from Athens for Alcibiades, with orders for him to sail home to answer the charges which the state brought against him, and for certain others of the soldiers who with him were accused of sacrilege in the matter of the mysteries and of the Hermae. | | | Pisistratus dying at an advanced age in possession of the tyranny, was succeeded by his eldest son, Hippias, and not Hipparchus, as is vulgarly believed. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/thuc6.html
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| | The Baldwin Project: Famous Men of Greece by John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland |
| | Minerva herself was said to be bringing Pisistratus back. | | | He did another thing for which the Greeks were grateful. | | | Pisistratus had a large collection and he invited all persons, rich or poor, to go to his library and read. |
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http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=haaren&book=greece&story=pisistratus
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: Documents of The Rise of Hellenic Tyranny, c. 650-550 BCE |
| | Now when Pisistratus, having wounded himself, was brought into the market-place in a chariot, and stirred up the people, as if he had been thus treated by his opponents because of his political conduct, a great many were enraged and cried out. | | | But observing the poor bent to gratify Pisistratus, and tumultuous, and the rich fearful and getting out of harm's way, he departed...Now, the people, having passed the law, took no notice of the number of his club-bearers, until he seized the Acropolis. | | | When that was done, and the city was in an uproar, Megacles, with all his family, fled... |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/650tyranny.html
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| | 5 Party strife, on the other hand, worked, and Pisistratus was exiled from 556-5. | | | 1 Pisistratus left the old offices, but put his own people into them, Th. | | | Pisistratus was the hero of the Gulf War. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rrice/0261011.html
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| | Real Change News |
| | The lawyerly Clinton, who thus lied whenever his lips moved, entertained the nation by redefining the word "sex" to exclude certain acts involving green dresses and cigars. | | | Significantly, he also first came to power by political coup. | | | Which brings us to Pisistratus, an early Athenian politician who had similar faith in the intelligence of the people. |
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http://www.realchangenews.org/pastissuesupgrade/2003_06_12/classics/classics_corner.html
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| | Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers: Solon, translated by C.D. Yonge |
| | And every one of the Athenians brings the tithe of his possessions, not to me, but to the proper place in order that it may be devoted to the public sacrifices of the city; and for any other public purposes, or for any emergencies of war which may arise. | | | Nor did they believe me when I gave them warning beforehand. | | | And while at his court being asked by him, "Who appears to you to be happy?" |
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http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/diogenes/dlsolon.htm
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| | This assassination, the motives for which are still debatable, did not immediately result in the overthrow of the tyranny, which was achieved with the intervention of Sparta. | | | The last-named, as polemarch, was leader in the Megarean War. | | | When Pisistratus died he was succeeded by his two sons, Hippias and Hipparchus, who was assassinated in 514 B.C. by Harmodius and Aristogiton. |
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http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/04/en/politics/412poli_pis.html
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| | In consequence of the way in which Megacles, one of the family, treated the insurgents under Cylon (B.C. 612), they brought upon themselves the guilt of sacrilege, and were in consequence banished from Athens about 595 About B.C. 560 they returned from exile, but were again expelled by Pisistratus. | | | Pisistratus first introduced a law for the support of those persons who had been maimed in battle. | | | Pisistratus, like the ancient kings, had his residence on the Acropolis, and may have added the stylobate to the temple of Athené recently identified, south of the Erechtheum. |
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| | State Support For the Arts: A Question of National Survival |
| | A recent US News and World Report said: "the artistic impulse that created this golden age and lifted America to its position of world leadership was aided immeasurably by the National Endowment for the Arts." | | | It was Pisistratus who gathered foreign poets to his court on the public payroll, who arranged for the state to patronize artists and sculptors, who improved and planned public shrines. | | | It was Pisistratus who had the city state hire minstrels to go around reciting the epics and hymns of Homer so that his works, till then only available to a privileged few, would be available to everyone. |
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http://www.utc.edu/~engldept/pm/whynea.htm
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| | Hipparchus was assassinated, leaving Hippias to rule alone until he was exiled in 510 BC, never enjoying the popularity of his father among the Athenian people. | | | An important note is that Pisistratus was very popular among the Athenians, his rule being mild and beneficial to his subjects. | | | Rule was then given to his sons Hippias and Hipparchus. |
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http://www.mta.ca/faculty/humanities/classics/Course_Materials/CLAS3001/hdt1_59to94.php3
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| | Classics 258: Periclean Athens |
| | By descent they were Pylians, of the family of the Neleids, to which Codrus and Melanthus likewise belonged, men who in former times from foreign settlers became kings of | | | This Pisistratus, at a time when there was civil contention in Attica between the party of the Sea-coast headed by Megacles the son of Alcmaeon, and that of the Plain headed by Lycurgus, one of the Aristolaids, formed the project of making himself tyrant, and with this view created a third party. | | | But this prince was not allowed to enjoy peaceably what his father had made over to him; for during very many years there had been war between the Athenians of Sigeum and the Mytilenaeans of the city called Achilleum. |
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http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/classics258/reading/Hdt.htm
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| | Pisistratus, Athenian general, organizes Diakrioi, party of poor people | | | Pisistratus takes power first time, driven out by Lycurgus who leads nobles | | | Pisistratus dies, succeeded by sons Hippias and Hipparchus |
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http://www.region18.org/student_pages/smcgill/timeline.htm
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| | SQUILLS.--"'There is a Secret; Find it out!'" PISISTRATUS (pushed to the verge of human endurance, and upsetting tongs, poker, and fire-shovel).--" What nonsense you are talking, all of you! | | | CAXTON (thrusting his hand into his waistcoat, and in his most didactic of tones).--"From a remote period, the choice of a title has perplexed the scribbling portion of mankind. | | | CAXTON (interrupting her, without lifting his eyes from the book he had already taken).--"Certainly you would not. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/b131w10.txt
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| | Pisistratus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | But his other son, Hipparchus, is also mentioned together with Hippias, suggesting some form of joint rule. | | | Pisistratus promoted the cults of Athena and Dionysus. | | | Athenian coinage was introduced by about 550 BC, and may reflect policy of his, though there is no reference in contemporary documents to such. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisistratus
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| | Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy |
| | Pisistratus was succeeded by his eldest son, Hippias, whose rule was somewhat similar to that of his father. | | | Since a tyrant like Pisistratus wanted to give his power over to a more popular base of support, it was during his reign that the average citizen obtained his political experience. | | | New religious festivals were also introduced by Pisistratus, such as the one devoted to the god Dionysis, the god of fertility. |
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| | - Pisistratus was succeeded by his sons, one of whom -- Hipparchus -- was assassinated as a result of a private feud. | | | One of them was Pisistratus, who made three attempts to seize power, finally succeeding on the third attempt. | | | The other son, Hippais, responded with such oppression, that he was overthrown and exiled by the nobles of the city. |
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| | "Tribes, Festivals,and Processions" Jenay Clark |
| | Pisistratus did not do this however, he only represented himself as a human, but he did however, associate himself with Athena upon his return to the city. | | | Herodotus states Athenians believed that the goddess Athena had really appeared to escort him to Athens. | | | Divine dress-people sometimes dressed as divinities to draw psychic energy and believed that they had special powers. |
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http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/dlevine/Oxford3.html
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| | Solon, Univ. of Saskatchewan |
| | Pisistratus was succeeded in 528/7 by his sons *Hippias and *Hipparchus (often referred to as the Pisistratids, or "sons of Pisistratus"). | | | As you have read in The World of Athens, the latter was killed in 514. | | | The City Dionysia became, as it were, the premiere occasion for advertising the new prominence of Athens as a cultural, economic, and political center. |
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http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/CourseNotes/SolonNotes.html
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| | Herodotus: Book One |
| | Return of Pisistratus to Attica; Pisistratus and his allies take Marathon, face Athenians at Pallene; prophecy of the tuna fish (62). | | | Strange portent of the self-boiling kettle does not convince Hippocrates of Athens to disown his son Pisistratus. | | | Reconciliation of Megacles and Pisistratus; Athenians tricked into believing that Athene (in fact a costumed woman of Attica) was bringing Pisistratus back in a chariot (60). |
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| | The Internet Classics Archive Solon by Plutarch |
| | Solon lived after Pisistratus seized the government, as Heraclides Ponticus asserts, a long time; but Phanias the Eresian says not two full years; for Pisistratus began his tyranny when Comias was archon, and Phanias says Solon died under Hegestratus, who succeeded Comias. | | | Now, the people, having passed the law, were not nice with Pisistratus about the number of his clubmen, but took no notice of it, though he enlisted and kept as many as he would, until he seized the Acropolis. | | | But all being afraid to side with him, he returned home, and, taking his arms, he brought them out and laid them in the porch before his door, with these words: "I have done my part to maintain my country and my laws," and then he busied himself no more. |
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| | The Internet Classics Archive The Odyssey by Homer |
| | Pisistratus thought how he should do as he was asked, and in the end he deemed it best to turn his horses towards the ship, and put Menelaus's beautiful presents of gold and raiment in the stern of the vessel. | | | She found him and Pisistratus sleeping in the forecourt of Menelaus's house; Pisistratus was fast asleep, but Telemachus could get no rest all night for thinking of his unhappy father, so Minerva went close up to him and said: | | | Then they laid their hands upon the good things that were before them, but as soon as they had had had enough to eat and drink Telemachus and Pisistratus yoked the horses, and took their places in the chariot. |
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| | This Megacles competed with Hippocleides to marry to Agarista, the daughter of Cleisthenes of Sicyon. | | | However, Megacles turned against Pisistratus when Pisistratus refused to have children with Megacles' daughter, which brought an end to the second tyranny. | | | Megacles, the grandson of the above and member of the Alcmaeonidae family, was an opponent of Pisistratus in the 6th century BC. |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.7.11 |
| | This tradition was not, however, the "low chronology" of Beloch and his followers, who would date the end of the Cypselid tyranny as late as 550 or even 540 -- several decades later than the "traditional" date in the 580's. | | | The six chapters that intervene are devoted to the chronological problems that stand in the way of accepting this reconstruction as historical or, at least, historically plausible. | | | The general thesis of the study is that there did exist in antiquity a tradition about Periander that makes a synchronism with Pisistratus possible. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1997/97.07.11.html
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| | A Manual of Greek Literature, page 48 |
| | On the contrary, it is not unlikely that before Pisistratus, persons began in various parts of Greece, and particularly in Asia Minor, which was far in advance of the mother country, to write down parts of the Iliad and Odyssey. | | | Pausanias mentions associates (eraipoi) of Pisistratus, who assisted him in the undertaking. | | | These four persons may have interpolated some passages, as it suited the pride of the Athenians or the political purposes of their patron Pisistratus. |
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| | Classical Greek History Timeline |
| | 527 BC Pisistratus dies and is succeeded by his sons Hippias (???–510 BC) and Hipparachus (555-514 BC). | | | This begins the age known as Classical Greece. | | | 565 BC Pisistratus, a general of Athens, a persistent tyrant over the next few decades, gains fame after a long war with the Megarians. |
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http://www.tccc.cc.nc.us/swood/251/ClassicalGreekHistoryTimeline.htm
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| | 528/7 B.C.: at his death, Pisistratus was succeeded by his two sons, Hippias and Hipparchos | | | Pisistratus relied on the demos=> in response to the social problems to which Solon's reforms had produced only a partial support, Pisistratus opened | | | BUT: Pisistratus did not suspend Solon's reforms, he simply used them to his own advantage (e.g., archons carefully selected from a list approved by the tyrant) |
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| | Trade flourished during the reign of Pisistratus and his sons were able to reduce taxation from 10% to 5%. | | | Ruling as a tyrant under constitutional forms (the historians Herodotus and Thucydides both attest that he left the rules and regulations of Solon as he found them), Pisistratus was a patron of the arts and literature and the first to have the poems of Homer written down. | | | The Attic economy was strengthened and Athens changed from a largely agricultural community to one based on trade and commerce. |
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| | Tom Bradley |
| | Pisistratus decided that it would be useful to regulate the public performances of poetry, maybe do a little manipulation of the poems themselves, in order to achieve certain propagandistic effects that would shore up his authority and enhance the credibility of his cronies. | | | We are gathered here today in defiance of the ossified and incestuous cabals who've controlled literature ever since Pisistratus the Athenian tyrant caused the Iliad and the Odyssey to be "put into order." | | | He's the same enterprising soul who grabbed a husky country girl, cleaned her up, dressed her in full body armor, and went riding his chariot into town with her at the reins, telling everybody that she was his personal chum, the goddess Athena. |
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http://www.jackmagazine.com/issue5/essaytbradley.html
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| | Pisistratus was a tyrant in 570 B.C. It has been noted, though, that his tyranny was mitigated because he beautified the city of Athens and encouraged the arts. | | | Even though # says, Free of Pisistratus in line 22, he ironically suggests that his tyranny was better than the reprehensible, manless characters currently in power. | | | At least Pisistratus was educated and appreciative of the arts! |
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http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/student/pisis.htm
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| | Pay attention to the dates of: his first seizure of tyranny (560); his second exile (556); his return to power and the battle of Pallene (546); his death (528). | | | What were the principal features of Pisistratus' domestic policy, foreign policy, religious policy, and building program? | | | Food for thought: Scholars are divided on the question whether the popularity of the theme of Heracles' apotheosis or introduction to Olympus on black-figure vases of the Pisistratean period does or does not reflect Pisistratus' attempt to link himself with the hero and patron goddess of Athens. |
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http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/cciv243/cciv243.athensB.html
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| | The Odyssey - Study Guide |
| | He will not return to his home, but has been directed be Athena to go to the swineherd's farm. | | | Why is Telemachus awake when Athena comes upon him? | | | Just before departing on his ship (that conveniently seems to await him) Telemachus agrees to take aboard the exiled prophet Theoclymenus. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Pisistratus |
| | In 560 bc the tyrant Pisistratus, supported by the aristocracy, gained control of Athens. | | | He enlarged the meeting place of Solon's council in the... |
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| | Caxton, a book which is in Latin what Goody Two-Shoes is in the vernacular!" MRS. | | | CAXTON.--"I only said, 'Write a book.' All the rest is the addition of your own headlong imagination." PISISTRATUS (with the recollection of The Great Book rising before him).--"Indeed, sir, I should think that that would just finish us!" MR. | | | But every subject on which novels can be written is preoccupied. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/7/7/1/7714/7714.txt
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| | MSN Encarta - Pisistratus |
| | Pisistratus (circa 600-527 bc), Athenian general and statesman, tyrant of Athens from 560 to 527 bc, the son of Hippocrates, and a kinsman and friend... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571223/Pisistratus.html
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| | Lyceum [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | An honorary decree for the Athenian statesman Lycurgus (IG II2 457) states that this building was repaired in the 330s BC. | | | The original structure may have been built either by Pericles (Philochoros, FGrH 328F37) in the fifth century BC or Pisistratus (Theopompus, FGrH 115F136) in the sixth century BC. |
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| | Article "Pisistratus" created on 18 May 1999; last modified on 18 May 1999 (Revision 1). |
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| | Greek News Events |
| | The Greeks Multimedia Project, BP 5: "How Pisistratus Took Power" and BP 6: "Pisistratus Rules as Tyrant and Reforms the Economy". | | | Solon's Reforms (from Perseus Project, Tufts University) gives details about the reforms of Solon and the economic/political crisis in Athens. | | | Death of Solon - Pisistratus Takes Over Athens as Tyrant |
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http://www.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch618/GreeksMultimediaProject/Greeknewspaper/Greek_News_Events.html
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