Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

The ancient Greeks we admire today regarded these seven men as the wisest of their time. They attributed to them not only the ...

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And just like Pisistratus, the tyrant who established the 'City Dionysia ... but theatres proved to be so popular they soon spread all over Greece. Drama was classified according to three ...

Solon was one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece and dominated Athenian politics ... economic ones - were later carried out by the tyrant Pisistratus. According to Plato's dialogues the Critias ...