Person
Cleisthenes
Also called: Kleisthenes
Athenian statesman who around 508 BC reorganised the tribes and introduced ostracism, laying the foundations of democracy
Where they went
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In an Athens torn between nobles and commoners, Solon graded political rights by wealth; after a period of tyranny, Cleisthenes reorganised the tribes and introduced ostracism, laying the groundwork of democracy.
People who appear alongside
- Solon
Athenian statesman and poet who, as archon in 594 BC, ended debt slavery and graded political rights by wealth
Themes this person appears in
- Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire