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Alcmaeonidae
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alcmaeonidae , Athenian family powerful in the 7th, 6th, and 5th cent. BC Blamed for the murder of the followers of Cylon, the would-be...
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Cleisthenes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Athenian statesman. He was the head of his family, the Alcmaeonidae , after the exile of Hippias, and with Spartan help had...districts into political rather than social divisions. The Alcmaeonidae thus became leaders of a democratic party, a reorientation...
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Hippias
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...BC At first Hippias attempted to work with his opponents, the Alcmaeonidae, but his rule became harsher as the Persians advanced. In 510 BC he was overthrown by the Alcmaeonidae and the Spartans and went into exile. He lived at the court of...
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Pisistratus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...citizens, whom he consolidated with farseeing land laws. His coup (c.560 BC) was probably not unpopular. His rivals, the Alcmaeonidae and the aristocracy, managed to exile him twice, but in his last years he established himself sufficiently to leave Athens...
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Pericles
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pericles , c.495-429 BC, Athenian statesman. He was a member of the Alcmaeonidae family through his mother, a niece of Cleisthenes. He first came to prominence as an opponent of the Areopagus (462) and as...
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Alcibiades
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alcibiades , c.450-404 BC, Athenian statesman and general. Of the family of Alcmaeonidae, he was a ward of Pericles and was for many years a devoted attendant of Socrates. He turned to politics after the Peace of Nicias...
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