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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ...his death. A patron of the arts, he executed many public works and tried to help small farmers. His unification of Attica and improvement of Athens's prosperity helped make the city preeminent in Greece. Peisistratus Peisistratus Peisistratus Read more
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Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes
Magazine article from: Rhetoric & Public Affairs; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...figures. The middle chapters of the book focus on Solon and Peisistratus, two predemocratic politicians who adroitly used persuasive...alternating poetic performances among the participants" (57). Peisistratus the tyrant, on the other hand, feared spaces like the andrn... Read more
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Newspaper article from: The Nation (Thailand); 5/12/1998; 700+ words ; ...Solon fingered the potential dictator -- his friend Gen Peisistratus -- and tried to warn the people. Just like my friend today...He died before the people realised he had been right about Peisistratus, and it took historians another 100 years to recognise his... Read more
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Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/26/2007; 700+ words ; ...found, in 2003, is part of a small agricultural town, Ad-Dawr). 2. In Rome (in 1347). 3. His son Kim Jong-Il (in 1994). 4. Peisistratus (in 560BC). 5. Manuel Noriega (in 1990). 6. The Dominican Republic (in 1930). 7. Rwanda. 8. Achmed Sukarno (in 1959). 9... Read more
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Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter; 5/12/2005; 692 words ; ...city is a dream of lights and colors. It was from here in the sixth century B.C., under the heavy-handed rule of the tyrant Peisistratus, where Athens ruled the Aegean Sea and beyond consequently becoming a leading power in the known world. From here western... Read more
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Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...the political community. That Solon's attempt to establish the autonomous law failed, opening the way for the tyranny of Peisistratus, is for McGlew the result of Solon's reliance on history rather than memory, or because Solon's story was a product of his... Read more
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Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Such issues are shown to be at play in the Hellenistic accounts regarding the retextualization of the Homeric poems under Peisistratus, tyrant of Athens, and the translation of the Hebrew Bible in the Greek (LXX) under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, for the two... Read more

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