Word: peisistratus
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...encouraging miracles of history." He introduced a graduated income tax, created a popular assembly to check the old-fashioned aristocratic council, made the entire citizenry a panel from which jurors were chosen. The quarrelsome Athenians might not have stuck to these laws if a dictator, Peisistratus, had not enforced them for a generation; after that they became habitual. About 507 B.C. another persuasive political thinker, Cleisthenes, extended an Athenian device which for pure democracy has never been equalled: selection of legislators by lot from the whole list of citizens over 30. It was then that Athenians began feeling their oats...
...following works are to be read for the approaching hour examination in Fine Arts 3: The first 295 pages of Oman, Reber's account of Archaic Art and Plutarch's Lives of Peisistratus, Aristeides Alcibades, and Sinon...
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