HIS 220 Lecture 18: Week 9 Notes
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Aristocracy solon: political reform: limited aristocracy, economic reform. Tyranny peisistratus: controlling aristocratic power. Cleisthe(cid:374)es" refor(cid:373)s: redistricting & citizenship, limited democracy. Tyranny of peisistratus (560-527 bce) provides an equalizing effect between rich and poor. Strengthens economy through the exportation of olives and black figure pottery. Builds alliances with aegean islands and areas in the north, and sets up colonies. Patron of the arts and of building projects. Promotes athens through festivals: the panathenaia and the dionysia. Peisistratus"s seco(cid:374)d atte(cid:373)pt to co(cid:374)trol the aristocracy 550/549: exiled 550, returns in 540. P. rules until 528/27, when his sons, hipparchus and hippias take over. Who: the son of hippocrates, the father of hippias and hipparchus, and a ruler of athens. His rule was temperate and more like constitutional government than a tyranny. Importance: he championed the poor at the expense of the wealthy elites who had ruled athens until this time. The olympieion was started by peisistratus but not finished until hadrien.
