- a variation of Cleisthenes.
Clisthenes
Britishnoun
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Relate how you were sent on a solemn mission with Androcles and Clisthenes.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
By the Solonian constitution, the whole political power was vested in the hands of the nobles; and Clisthenes soon found that it was hopeless to contend against his rival under the existing order of things.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
Help us to look, Clisthenes; we shall thus owe you double thanks, dear friend.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
As for the Sicyonians, Orthagoras became their tyrant, and subsequently Myro and Clisthenes, and these three checked their wanton outbreaks; but the Cleonæans, not getting such a cure, went to ruin.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
The reforms of Clisthenes gave birth to the Athenian democracy, which can hardly be said to have existed before this time.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
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