Essay !! Flashcards
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Tell thee ABOUT Pisistratus
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- Gained his notoriety in 565 Capturing the port of Nisaea in nearby Megara by creating a successful coup. Victory stopped trade blockade that was causing food shortages in Athens.
- from Northern Attica
- had the support of the Men of the Hill, and poorer city dwellers.
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Pisistratus rise to power #1
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- wounded himself and his mules in order to gain body guards.
- once he had body guards and the support of the poor he was able to take the acropolis.
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Pisistratus defeat #2
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- Pisistratus does not have any children with the daughter of Megacles because Pisistratus has two sons from another marriage in which he did not want undermine their position by fathering a child from a different woman.
- Pissed off Megacles pairs up with Pisistratus enemies and forces him out of Athens a second time.
- this last from 555 to 546 BC.
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Pisistratus defeat #1
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- After 5 years parties of the plain and coast united together and drove Pisistratus out.
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Pisistratus rise to power #2
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- Megacles the leader of the coastal party gets into a fight with people of the lains and also his own faction and decides to side with Pisistratus and helps him regain power in Athens.
- in return for Megacles help he Pisistratus had to marry coastal leaders daughter.
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Pisistratus Rise to Power #3
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- gained wealth from gold and silver mines in a northern Greece mountain Pangaeus
- also had support from Lygdamis of Naxos
- gain cavalry from Eretria
- used wealth to pay a mercenary army to take Greece a third time.
- ruled Athens for nearly twenty years
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Pisistratus defeat #3
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he died of natural causes in 527.
- his last son was exiled from Athens in 510
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Pisistratus Policies?
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- Offered land and loans the needy.
- encourage cultivation of the Olive.
- increased trade expanding throughout the Black sea and Aegean, as far west as Spain.
- Pisistratus or his sons issued the first owl stamped silver coins with Athenian on the other side. It became the soundest currency in the Aegean.
- provided jobs to those that badly needed them.
- focused on turning the city as a cultural center.
- Replaced private guarded wells of the aristocrats with public fountain houses.
- built the first aqueduct.
- rebuilt the temple of Athena on the Acropolis.
- began temple to Olympian Zeus.
- supported religion and art.
- started new festivals such as Dionysia and Panathenaea
- at Dionysia festivals would tragoidia which is a conversation with the singers and their leaders in the form of a goat song,
- Panathenaea involved peplos which was a woolen dress. (this festival would play the occasion for the murder of one of his sons Hipparchus in 514.
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How did Pisistratus spread power?
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- installed ally Lygdamis as tyrant at Naxos
- Lygdamis installed Polycrates in Samos.
- Sigeum was recaptured and Pisistratus sent his sons to govern it.
- established foot hold in the Thracian Chersonese where sent Miltiades to establish Athenian control.
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How did Pisistratus tyranny end?
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- after Pisistratus death in 427 Hippias and Hipparchus
- in 514 Hipparchus, insulted Harmodius Sister by not allowing her to carry a basket through Panathenaic procession in which only virgins were allowed to carry baskets so it sinulted the sister because it insinuated that she was a skank.
- pissed off Harmodius and his lover Aristogiton, plan to kill Hipparchus and Hippias.
- plan is botched as they think guy supposed to kill Hippias is defecting so they immediately kill Hipparchus.
- Hippias becomes super paranoid but falls four years later in 510 to Spartan intervention against Tyranny.
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Define Tyranny?
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The illegal seizure and control of governmental power in a polis by a single strongman.
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List of important names from Peisistratid tyranny?
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Megacles Hippias Solon Harmodius Hipparchus Lygdamis Polycrates Miltiades
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Name the festivals of Pisistratus
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Dionysia and Panathenaea
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Pisistratus GOAT SONG
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tragoidia
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Woollen dress Pisistratus
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peplos
