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    not follow Chilon's advice, and later, he had a son named Pisistratus. Originally, Pisistratus became known as an Athenian general who captured the port...
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    514 BC) was a member of the ruling class of Athens and one of the sons of Pisistratus. He was a tyrant of the city of Athens from 528/527 BC until his assassination...
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    group of tyrants from the same family in Ancient Greece. His father was Pisistratus, who preceded him as ruler of Athens, while his brother Hipparchus may...
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    Solon was the lover of Pisistratus, for their ages do not admit of it," as Solon was about thirty years older than Pisistratus. Nevertheless, the tradition...
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  • different times between 561 and 528 BC. Peisistratus, Peisistratos or Pisistratus may also refer to: Peisistratus (Odyssey), son of Nestor who appears...
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  • King of Babylon. 561 BC/560 BC: Croesus becomes King of Lydia. 560 BC: Pisistratus seizes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant. He is deposed...
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  • Peisistratus or Pisistratus (Ancient Greek: Πεισίστρατος, romanized: Peisistratos) was a prince of Pylos in Messenia. Pisistratus was the youngest son...
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    concepts. When Pisistratus took power in Athens as a tyrant, he exiled his political opponents and the Alcmaeonidae. After Pisistratus' death in 527 BC...
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  • the Alcmaeonidae family, was an opponent of Pisistratus in the 6th century BC. He drove out Pisistratus during the latter's first reign as tyrant in...
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    has information related to Coeliades pisistratus. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coeliades pisistratus. Coeliades at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera...
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    1955, pp. 7–8. Davison 1955, pp. 9–10. Wilson 2018, p. 21, "In 566 BCE, Pisistratus, the tyrant of the city (which was not yet a democracy), instituted a...
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    established in the agora of Athens by the archon Pisistratus (son of Hippias and the grandson of the tyrant Pisistratus), around 522 BC. The altar became the central...
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  • chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens and prepared an edition of the Homeric poems. He was a collector...
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    The first took place in the sixth century BC, directed by the tyrant Pisistratus, who ordered that all graves within sight of the temple be dug up and...
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  • Lycurgus Lysicles Miltiades Moerocles Nicias Pericles Philinus Phocion Pisistratus Solon Themistocles Theramenes Thrasybulus Thucydides Timoleon Timotheus...
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    Herodotus, heralds arrived in the city prior to Pisistratus and Phye, announcing that Athena honoured Pisistratus above all other men and was escorting him...
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    existence. The fourth Orpheus was of Crotonia; flourished in the time of Pisistratus, about the fiftieth Olympiad, and is, I have no doubt, the same with...
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    the Classical Period, after the reforms of Solon and the tyranny of Pisistratus. The Classical Greek world was dominated throughout the 5th century BC...
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    loose songs were not collected together in the Form of an epic Poem till Pisistratus' time, about 500 Years after." Friedrich August Wolf's Prolegomena ad...
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    the Classical Agora. The Altar was set up by Pisistratus the Younger, (the grandson of the tyrant Pisistratus) during his archonship, in 522/1 BC. It marked...
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    and were able to recover significant influence. During the tyranny of Pisistratus, a member of the influential Peisistratids family and rival clan to the...
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    Description of Greece. E.g., "I found that the combat took pace when Pisistratus was archon at Athens in the 4th year . . . of the Olympiad in which Eurybotus...
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    Jones, Colin (25 September 2018). "Robespierre, the Duke of York, and Pisistratus During the French Revolutionary Terror". The Historical Journal. 61 (3):...
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    Gold and silver were mined in the ancient times. The Athenian tyrant Pisistratus was exiled in the middle of the mountain. It was the rich gold and silver...
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    against. His life was written by Philistus, but the work is lost. Like Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, Dionysius was fond of having literary men around him...
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    So they waited for the full moon, and meanwhile Hippias, the son of Pisistratus, guided the Persians to Marathon. — Herodotus The significance of this...
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  • naming years. Labashi-Marduk succeeds Neriglissar as king of Babylon. Pisistratus is expelled to Euboea from Athens, and makes his fortune from Thrace's...
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  • a Sinhalese dynasty after he was banished from his father's kingdom Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, purifies the island of Delos. (approximate) Guided...
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    will be produced by Thomas Olaimey with writer-director David L. Hunt. Pisistratus—The tyrant of 5th century BCE Athens whom Judge Mettrick speaks of during...
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  • the important ports that look out to the Mediterranean world. 546 BC—Pisistratus, supported by Thebes and Argos, finally takes power in Athens from the...
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