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Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought. American Political Science Review (12/1/1994)
...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...

The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic and Christian Traditions.(An Ecstasy of Folly: Prophecy and Authority in Early Christianity)(Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East)(Book review) Church History (12/1/2006)
...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...

Hippeis: The Cavalry of Ancient Greece. The Historian (3/22/1995)
...what Agamemnon might have used in the way of equipment, and acceptance of an intrinsically implausible later anecdote about Peisistratus disarming the Athenians in the mid-sixth century. What were neighboring states and families already in exile and hostile...

Erosand Greek Athletics.(Book Review) Journal of the History of Sexuality (1/1/2003)
...autocrat Hipparchus in 514 B.C.E. In Athens the autocrat Solon (ca. 595/ 4-60?) played erastes to his successor, Peisistratus (ca. 560-27), whose own eromenos Charmus, eventually played erastes to his son and successor, Hippias (as well as...

Foxy or out-foxed citizens? Solon, Fr. 11 West (15 Gentili-Prato). Acta Classica (1/1/2007)
...the Athenians, rather than being cunning, have been tricked by a 'fox', and that this 'fox' is a tyrant, probably Peisistratus. The problem Solon, the first poet of Athens of whose poetry we have any examples, (1) used the medium of poetry to...

BRAZIL: CARNIVAL COMES FROM EGYPT. IPR Strategic Business Information Database (7/23/2006)
...Origin Carnival". The parties held in Greece before the birth of Jesus Christ are also part of this period. The tyrant Peisistratus, who governed Athens between 600 b.C. and 527 b.C., allowed the so-called bacchanals held in the fields to be taken...

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