Clisthenes
Britishnoun
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Phidon therefore and his brother Caranus were contemporary to Solon, Alcm�on, Clisthenes, and Eurolycus, and flourished about the 48th and 49th Olympiads.
From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir
The severe constitution of Draco was succeeded in 594 by the milder code of Solon, the democratic elements of which, after the brief tyranny of the Pisistratids, were emphasized and developed by Clisthenes.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
The democratic party is headed by Clisthenes, the master-spirit of the revolution inaugurated for the overthrow of the despotic and hated sons of Pisistratus.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John
The institutions of Clisthenes had given her citizens a personal interest in the welfare and the grandeur of their country.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Smith, William, Sir
The tombs of the worthies of old, stretching out along the Sacred Way to Eleusis, where Solon, Clisthenes, Miltiades, and many another bulwark of Athens slept, had the last votive wreath hung lovingly upon them.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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