ANTH 2200 Chapter Notes -Peisistratos, Pelasgians, Croesus
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October 7th, 2013 ancient greece & rome ap/hist 2100a. Lacedaemonians were the most eminent of the dorian peoples, and the athenians of the ionian peoples (section 57) Dorians were driven from ossa & olympus in the histiaeotis by the cadmeians & were known then as the macedons; later sailed to peloponnese where they became known as dorians (57) Herodotus believes the greeks always spoke the same language, but were weak after their separation from the pelasgians (of whom they were a branch) (58) Athens, he learned, had been split by faction and was now under the tyranny of. Hippocrates didn"t take chilon"s advice about not having any more children, wives, etc; later, pisistratus would be born (59) Pisistratus devised a ruse in order to seize and secure power for himself (59) Cut himself and the bodies of his mules and road into town acclaiming to having been attacked by the enemy.