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Cleisthenes, fl. 510 B.C., Athenian statesman. He was the head of his family, the Alcmaeonidae Alcmaeonidae (ălk'mēŏ`nĭdē), Athenian family powerful in the 7th, 6th, and 5th cent. B.C. ..... Click the link for more information. , after the exile of Hippias, and with Spartan help had made himself undisputed ruler of Athens by 506 B.C. He established a more democratic constitution by weakening the clan system and the local parties and by organizing the districts into political rather than social divisions. The Alcmaeonidae thus became leaders of a democratic party, a reorientation making them anti-Spartan instead of pro-Spartan as earlier. An attempt of his rival, Isagoras, to overturn the reforms of Cleisthenes after Cleisthenes had been sent into exile failed, and Cleisthenes was recalled. |
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that another Athenian statesman, Cleisthenes (CLYS-then-eez), introduced a constitution with revolutionary reforms. Cleisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon in the 5th century BC was a distinguished, wealthy and powerful man with a daughter to marry off. |
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