Peisistratus biography

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    Pisistratus

    6th-century BC tyrant of ancient Athens

    For other people with the same name, see Peisistratus (disambiguation).

    Pisistratus (also spelled Peisistratus or Peisistratos; Ancient Greek: ΠεισίστρατοςPeisistratos; c. 600 BC – 527 BC) was a politician in ancient Athens, ruling as tyrant in the late 560s, the early 550s and from 546 BC until his death. His unification of Attica, the triangular peninsula of Greece containing Athens, along with economic and cultural improvements laid the groundwork for the later pre-eminence of Athens in ancient Greece.[3][4] His legacy lies primarily in his institution of the Panathenaic Games, historically assigned the date of 566 BC, and the consequent first attempt at producing a definitive version of the Homeric epics. Pisistratus' championing of the lower class of Athens is an early example of populism.[5] While in power, he did not hesitate to confront the aristocracy and greatly reduce their privileges, confiscating their lands and giving them to the poor. Pisistratus funded many religious and artistic programs,[6] in order to improve the economy and spread the wealth more equally among the Athenian people.

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    （*Peisi/stratos) the son of Hippocrates, was so named after Peisistratus, the youngest son of Nestor, the family of Hippocrates being of Pylian origin, and tracing their descent to Neleus, the father of Nestor (Hdt. 5.65). It was generally believed that the future tyrant Peisistratus was descended from the Homeric Peisistratus, although Pausanias (2.18.8, 9), when speaking of the expulsion of the Neleidae by the Heracleids, says that he does not know what became of Peisistratus, the grandson of Nestor. The fact that Hippocrates named his son after the son of Nestor shows the belief of the family, and he appears not to have belonged to the other branches of the Neleidae settled in Attica : but the real descent of an historical personage from any of these heroic families must always be very problematical. The separate mention of Melanthus and Codrus (Herod. l.c.) implies that he did not belong to that branch; that he did not belong to the Alcmaeonidae is clear from the historical relations between that family and Peisistratus; and we nowhere hear that the latter was connected with the Paeonidae, the only other branch of the Neleidae who came to Attica. Hippocrates (probably through some intermarriage or other) belonged to the house of the Philaidae (Plut.

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    Pisistratus

    605–527 BC
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