HIST 426 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Panathenaic Games, Cleisthenes, Peisistratos
29 Sep 2017
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After death of peisistratos sons hippias and hipparkhos rule as joint tyrants. Tyranny transforms into one of subjugation and oppression. Many prominent families leave athens before they can come under scrutiny. 510 overthrow of the peisistratid tyranny: spartans captured all children and grandchildren of hippias ensuring surrender, family goes into exile in persian empire. Thebes: 525 - creates boiotian confederacy - may city-states - dominated by thebes (5-6k hoplites strong, plataia. Located on the border of boioitia and attika. Kleomenes i - king of sparta - going home after liberating athens - petitioned for help from plataia. Offer unconditional surrender of plataia to control of athens. Any further attack on plataia is war on athens: thebes plans revenge by taking a city in attika and then demanding trade of plataia, athenian victory at oinoe. 500 -700 hoplites captured alive to be ransomed. Thebes has to cede part of boiotia. Beginning of enmity between athens and thebes.
