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    Pisistratus (redirect from Peisístratos)
    Pisistratus (also spelled Peisistratus or Peisistratos; Greek: Πεισίστρατος Peisistratos; c. 600 BC – 527 BC) was a politician in ancient Athens, ruling...
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    controlled by Kylon during the failed Kylonian revolt, and twice by Peisistratos; each of these was attempts directed at seizing political power by coups...
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  • Hippocrates (Greek: Ἱπποκράτης, Hippokrátēs) was the father of Peisistratos, the tyrant of Athens. According to Herodotus, he received an omen when he...
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    Athens, along with his brother Hippias, after the death of their father Peisistratos in about 528/7 BC. The word tyrant literally means "one who takes power...
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    the 4th century BC, Lapithos was one of the nine kingdoms of Cyprus. Peisistratos, king of Lapithos, with his flotilla, together with Nicocreon of Salamis...
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  • Peisistratus, Peisistratos or Pisistratus may also refer to: Peisistratus (Odyssey), son of Nestor who appears in The Odyssey Peisistratos of Lapithos,...
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  • Mahavira attains Moksha, according to the Swetambara Tradition. 527 BC—Peisistratos a tyrant of Athens dies: his son Hippias inherits his power. 526 BC—Psammetichus...
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    Spartan troops helped the Athenians overthrow the tyrant Hippias, son of Peisistratos. Cleomenes I, king of Sparta, established a pro-Spartan oligarchy conducted...
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    Athenian tyrant Peisistratos in his landing at Marathon, which led to the restoration of Peisistratos to power in Athens. As a reward, Peisistratos helped Lygdamis...
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    Preparations began for which Athens fell to Peisistratos for the third time in 546 BC. Hippias succeeded Peisistratos as tyrant of Athens in 528/7 BC when his...
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    569 Pythagoras is born. 565 Peisistratos, Athenian general, organizes Diakrioi, party of poor people. 561 Peisistratos takes power in Athens for first...
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    what she ('Athena') and Peisistratos himself represented together for the city of Athens. The connection between Peisistratos, the citizens of Athens...
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    fraudulent stories being exposed. Herodotos complained of a ruse by Peisistratos, who dressed up a tall woman, Phye, to impersonate the goddess Athena...
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    shrine of Apollo at Athens near the Ilisos river. It was created by Peisistratos, and tripods were placed there by those who had won in the cyclic chorus...
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    in the institutions of ancient Athens by the 6th century. In 566 BC, Peisistratos instituted a civic and religious festival called the Panathenaia, which...
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  • general who was slain at the battle of Delium Hippocrates, father of Peisistratos Hippocrates (lunar crater) Hippocrates of Gela, ancient Greek tyrant...
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    society. In 561 BC, the nascent democracy was overthrown by the tyrant Peisistratos but was reinstated after the expulsion of his son, Hippias, in 510. Cleisthenes...
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    after twenty years of unrest the popular party, led by Peisistratos, seized power. Peisistratos is usually called a tyrant, but the Greek word tyrannos...
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    artists encouraged worship such as the painters during the time of the Peisistratos, who often presented Heracles entering Olympus in their works. Some sources...
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    Athenian silver didrachm of "heraldic type" from the time of Peisistratos, 545–510 BC. Obverse: Four-spoked wheel. Reverse: Incuse square, divided diagonally...
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    for a king, because Phaedrus has this happening during the reign of Peisistratos, which occurred decades after the presumed date of Aesop's death. Along...
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  • of the Philaidae, a wealthy Athenian family that was opposed to the Peisistratos family. During his term as archon, he set up the statue of Athena Promachos...
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    period. In Athens, the inhabitants first gave the title of tyrant to Peisistratos (a relative of Solon, the Athenian lawgiver) who succeeded in 546 BC...
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    classical example, the wife of Peisistratos wanted a young man executed for embracing their daughter, to which Peisistratos responded: "What shall we do...
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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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    by Megara, but became an Athenian possession in the time of Solon or Peisistratos, following the war between Athens and Megara around 600 BC. According...
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    lives in the suburbs of Athens, such as Hippios Kolonos. Only after Peisistratos's tyranny and the reforms implemented by Cleisthenes did the local communities...
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    probably of the fourth century BC) attributes it to Hipparchus, son of Peisistratos (Athens). The Hipparchus adds that the law required the rhapsodists to...
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    Celeus' son, who had supposedly learned agriculture from Demeter. Under Peisistratos of Athens, the Eleusinian Mysteries became pan-Hellenic, and pilgrims...
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  • ability and military virtues. This is true for the cases of both Solon and Peisistratos by Herodotus and by Aristotle in the Athenaion Politeia. In addition...
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