Today in class we took notes and started watching a movie about Greek history.
Next in line...
- With Hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (both were aristocrats) engaged in a power struggle
- Isagoras had support from some fellow aristocrats, plus from Sparta
- Cleisthenes had support from the majority of Athenians
Isagoras wins (but not for too long)
- Isagoras becomes archon eponymous (tyrant)
- He ostracizes Cleisthenes
- Cleithenes' supporters - and the ordinary Athenian citizens - revolt against Isagoras tyranny
- They trap Isagoras on the acropolis for two days - on the third day he fled and was banished
- 508 B.C.E.
Cleisthenes and Democracy
- Cleisthenes: Definitely a member of the elite
- very rich
- insulted from the "ho polloi"
- a crafty politician
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