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	William Smith : A Smaller History of [Ancient] Greece - Early History of Athens, Establishment of Democracy
		Upon learning the death of the Athenian king, the Dorians retired from Attica without striking a blow: and the Athenians, from respect to the memory of Codrus, abolished the title of king, and substituted for it that of Archon or Ruler.
		Cylon and his brother made their escape, but the remainder of his associates, hard pressed by hunger, abandoned the defence of the walls, and took refuge at the altar of Athena (Minerva).
		The memory of Harmodius and Aristogiton was cherished with the fondest reverence; and the Athenians of a later age, overlooking the four years which had elapsed from their death to the overthrow of the despotism, represented them as the liberators of their country and the first martyrs for its liberty.
	www.ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/history-of-ancient-greece-5-athens-democracy.asp (0 words)

	Cylon of Athens
		Cylon (also spelled Kylon) was an Athenian associated with the first reliably dated event in Athenian history, the Cylonian affair.
		Cylon, one of the Athenian nobles and a previous victor of the Olympic Games, attempted a coup in 632 BC with support from Megara, where his father-in-law Theagenes was tyrant.
		The Athenian archons, led by Megacles, took this as the goddess's repudiation of her suppliants and proceeded to stone them to death (on the other hand, Herodotus, 5.71, and Thucydides, 1.126, do not mention this aspect of the story, stating that Cylon was simply killed after being convinced that he would not be harmed).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Cylon.html (0 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Athenian
		Athenian festival in honor of Dionysus, held during the month of Anthesterion (Feb150;Mar.) to celebrate the beginning of spring and the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage.
		The "rich Athenian lady" was pregnant: the anthropology of a geometric tomb reconsidered.
		Athenian transformations: Athens is undergoing traumatic transformations in preparation for the Olympics.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Athenian&StartAt=41 (795 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: History of Ancient Greece
		Ancient Greece to 146 B.C. Introductory.-It is necessary to indicate at the outset the scope and object of the present article.
		The Athenian empire cannot, indeed, be classed with the Roman, or with the British rule in India; it does not, therefore, deserve to be classed with the empires of Cyrus or of Jenghiz Khan.
		ANCIENT AUTHORITIES.-(I.) For the earliest periods of Greek history, the socalled Minoan and Mycenaean, the evidence is purely archaeological.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/eb11-greece.html (22278 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Pausanias: Description of Greece, Book I: Attica
		Among the Athenians the cult was established by Aegeus, who thought that he was childless (he had, in fact, no children at the time) and that his sisters had suffered their misfortune because of the wrath of Heavenly Aphrodite.
		The Stoic philosopher, 280-207 B.C. [1.18.1] The sanctuary of the Dioscuri is ancient.
		, the Athenians opposing the Boeotians and Lacedaemonians, the Argives reinforced the Athenians.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/pausanias-bk1.html (19483 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		The Athenian Clisthenes, who was grandson by the mother's side of the other, and had been named after him, resolved, from contempt (as I believe) of the Ionians, that his tribes should not be the same as theirs; and so followed the pattern set him by his namesake of Sicyon.
		There was a certain Athenian called Cylon, a victor at the Olympic Games, who aspired to the sovereignty, and aided by a number of his companions, who were of the same age with himself, made an attempt to seize the citadel.
		The Athenians made an offering of the tenth part of the ransom-money: and expended it on the brazen chariot drawn by four steeds, which stands on the left hand immediately that one enters the gateway of the citadel.
	classics.mit.edu /Herodotus/history.5.v.html (9991 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 911 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Excited apparently and en couraged by these advantages, and especially by his powerful alliance, he conceived the design of making himself tyrant of Athens, and having con sulted the Delphic oracle on the subject, was enjoined to seize the Acropolis at the principal festival of Zeus.
		When they had reached the temple of the Eumenides the line broke, and Megacles and his colleagues seized on the accident as a proof that the goddess had rejected their supplication, and that they might therefore be massacred in full accordance with religion.
		Ancient Library was developed and hosted by Tim Spalding of Isidore-of-Seville.com.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0920.html (996 words)

	Cylon of Athens at AllExperts
		Cylon and his brother escaped, but his followers were cornered by Athens's nine archons.
		According to Plutarch and Thucydides (1.126), they were persuaded by the archons to leave the temple and stand trial after being assured that their lives would be spared.
		The Athenian archons, led by Megacles, took this as the goddess's repudiation of her suppliants and proceeded to stone them to death (on the other hand, Herodotus, 5.71, and Thucydides, 1.126, do not mention this aspect of the story, stating that Cylon was simply killed after being convinced that he would not be harmed).
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/cy/cylon_of_athens.htm (346 words)

	Scholia Reviews ns 15 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Forsdyke has coined the term 'the politics of exile' to cover both exile as a form of political pre-emption or retribution, and the internal manoeuvring that was practised after their flight into a distant land by those members of the Greek elite who hoped ultimately to return for political vindication.
		Forsdyke is not afraid to give bold re-assessments of the reliability, even the veracity, of her ancient sources, particularly of their interpretation of the acts and circumstances of various leaders.
		Athenians ware indigenous to Attica, and Athens was receptive of exiles from other states, who then became part of this 'autochthonous' state.
	www.classics.und.ac.za /reviews/06-29for.htm (1610 words)

	John Adams: Defence of the Constitutions: Vol. I, Letter XLI
		Megacles, head of this family, was archon when Cylon, a man of a very ancient and powerful family, attempted to acquire the sovereignty of his country.
		Cylon fled, and his party fled to the altars: they were promised pardon, but condemned and executed.
		Solon, of an ancient royal family, who had hitherto pursued nothing but literature and poetry, perceiving that this rash act of the populace began to give general disgust and repentance, especially to the young Athenians, ventured to lead the people to repeal it.
	www.constitution.org /jadams/ja1_41.htm (5354 words)

	Greece, A History of Ancient Greece, Solon, A Biography
		Whatever the connection between Cylon and Draco--and one must beware the trap of bringing all the meager facts about the Archaic period into relation with each other--firmer grounds for postulating economic and social unrest in late 7th-century Attica are to be found in the poetry of Solon.
		This act of pulling up the horoi was a sign that he had "freed the fl earth." The men whose land was designated by these horoi were called "sixth-parters" (hektemoroi) because they had to hand over one-sixth of their produce to the "few" or "the rich" to whom they were in some sense indebted.
		He was concerned to recognize and increase the power of the ordinary Athenian thete and hoplite, while containing without destroying the privileges of the aristocratic "cream." By uprooting the horoi, symbols of a kind of slavery, he created the Attica of independent smallholders one encounters as late as the 4th century.
	www.history-world.org /solonbio.htm (2089 words)

	History of Athens - Athens Info Guide
		The Ancient and the Roman Agora, Plaka, the romantic Anafiotika area, the Panathenaic Stadium, Lykavittos and Philopappou Hill, the tens of museums, Psirri, Syntagma, Monastiraki etc. There is a lot to see in Athens and it is worth while seeing it.
		Ancient Athens occupied a very small area compared to the sprawling metropolis of modern Athens.
		The walled ancient city encompassed an area measuring about 2 kilometers from east to west and slightly less than that from north to south, although at its peak the city had suburbs extending well beyond these walls.
	www.athensinfoguide.com /historyearly.htm (0 words)

	6-Athens
		General Conclusion: Engine of liberal reform was the gradual increase in personal wealth (clear in the archaeological record...construction activity, pottery, etc) and in the number of citizens [the middle] with resources to serve in the army and to articulate their demands.
		The result was to put Athenians from different parts of Attica together into the same political units; it's a bit like having some people from Alaska and some from Alabama belong to the same congressional district.
		To get to the Assembly meeting you would have to come to Athens; as many Athenians lived 15 or 20 miles out in the countryside, this would have been quite a burden, and so it is possible that city-folks were over-represented (rather the opposite of today).
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~klio/gr/06-athens.htm (2230 words)

	Solon, Univ. of Saskatchewan
		[An Athenian would not refer to a particular year as the Romans did (or as we do) by reference to some event in the past, but by naming the eponymous archon for the year in question.] [FN 1] In addition to their monopoly over the chief magistracies, the aristocracy controlled the *Council of the Areopagus.
		In addition to his importance to Athenian political and social history, Solon is of value for his reflections on the nature of the gods and divine justice.
		This division was an ancient one and was based upon the very regional affiliations that allowed the great families to maintain their dominance.
	homepage.usask.ca /~jrp638/CourseNotes/SolonNotes.html (6562 words)

	Detail Page
		Cylon (Greek: Kulon) and his followers captured the Athenian Acropolis; yet the common people did not rise in support, and government forces besieged the conspirators.
		Cylon escaped but his men were massacred, despite having claimed sanctuary at religious altars.
		This mishap was the origin of the "Alcmaeonid curse"—the taint of pollution considered to lie perpetually on the entire clan of the Alcmaeonids, because one of the clan, Megacles, had overseen the massacre.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0156 (113 words)

	Center for Hellenic Studies - Athenian Law: Lectures, BlackwellB
		The Athenians thought that they mythological hero Theseus was their first king, and they attributed to him the birth of the Athenian state.
		It was common for Athenians, for the next 200 years, to describe subsequent legal innovations in terms of their fidelity to the "Solonian Constitution" (whether or not those innovations remotely resembled the laws of Solon).
		According to the Constitution of the Athenians attributed traditionally to Aristotle, Solon himself was from an aristocratic family, while his personal wealth put him in the middle-class of Athenians, and his sympathy for the injustices against the poor made him a champion of the people generally.
	www.chs.harvard.edu /discussion_series.sec/athenian_law.ssp/athenian_law_lectures_5.pg (5659 words)

	Cylon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Cylon
		Besieged on the Acropolis, Cylon and his supporters took sanctuary at the altar of Athena.
		But they were all put to death except Cylon, who escaped.
		She plays D'Anna, a Number Three-model Cylon (part robot, part human) who, conveniently, can be downloaded into another body if killed.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Cylon (219 words)

	Greek Philosophers and Aristophanes by Sanderson Beck
		Frustrated Cylon and his followers set fire to their residence, and many Pythagoreans may have died in the fire or were killed afterward.
		Tragically the heroic battles that the Greeks fought in self-defense against the Persian invasions of 490 and 480 BC were later followed by the Peloponnesian War between the Greek city states of Athens and Sparta and their respective allies.
		When Athenians urged him to become initiated so that he would enjoy a special privilege in the other world, Diogenes thought it ludicrous that this could cause those of no account to live in the Isles of the Blessed.
	san.beck.org /GPJ4-GreekPhilosophers.html (0 words)

	Ancient Greek Legal System
		It was not until the middle of the seventh century BC that the Greeks first began to establish official laws.
		Ancient Greek courts were cheap and run by what people today would call amateurs.Court officials were paid little, if anything, and most trials were completed in the same day, private cases even more quickly.
		Verdicts in Athenian courts were not subject to appeal, and sometimes the dikastai would vote after the trial to find a penalty as well.
	www.crystalinks.com /greeklaw.html (1582 words)

	The Theosophy Trust (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By 624 measures were needed to prevent the ancient principle of the blood-feud from becoming the paradigm for disaffection between the social classes and to discourage outright tyranny as well.
		His father was of modest wealth, ancient nobility (as a descendant of Codrus) and exceptional generosity.
		When asked if he had given the Athenians perfect laws, he replied, "I gave them the best they could receive." Though Solon did not always approve of the actions of Pisistratus, who ruled many years and was in a stronger position than his friend and mentor had been, he held his tongue.
	www.theosophytrust.org /tlodocs/dispreport.php?d=teachers/Solon.htm (3364 words)

	The Open Door Web Site : History : Mr Woodall's Lesson Notes : Introduction to Ancient Athens
		This mountainous peninsula with fertile plains isolated one from the other, except by the sea, imposed an isolation on the developing cities, which explains their independence from each other and the wide contrast in their systems of government.
		Although the aristocratic dominance of government and society was maintained an entire new class of Athenian citizens became eligible for service in the government recruited from the wealthy commercial and skilled artisan classes.
		What is remarkable about Athenian democracy is the fact that it was not won for the common people by popular uprisings or civil war.
	www.saburchill.com /history/Woodall/001.html (911 words)

	Schulers Books (Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II. - 1/26)
		Born of an ancient and powerful house, and possessed of considerable wealth, Cylon, the Athenian, conceived the design of seizing the citadel, and rendering himself master of the state.
		The mode of burial in Salamis, agreeable to the custom of the Athenians and contrary to that of the Megarians, and reference to certain Delphic oracles, in which the island was called "Ionian," were also adduced in support of the Athenian claims.
		Meanwhile at Athens--the tranquillity of the state was still disturbed by the mortal feud between the party of Cylon and the adherents of the Alcmaeonidae--time only served to exasperate the desire of vengeance in the one, and increase the indisposition to justice in the other.
	www.schulers.com /books/ed/a/Athens__Its_Rise_and_Fall__Book_II_ (1433 words)

	Introducing Ancient Greek Philosophy (IAGP)
		The temple legend of Delos is certainly ancient, and it connects the worship of Apollo with the Hyperboreans, who were thought of as living on the banks of the Danube.
		Cylon, who is expressly stated by Aristoxenus to have been one of the first men of Croton in wealth and birth, was able to bring about the retirement of Pythagoras to Metapontum, another Achaean city, and it was there that he passed his remaining years.
		It is very remarkable that no ancient writer expressly says he ever was at Elea, and all the evidence we have seems inconsistent with his having settled there at all.
	faculty.evansville.edu /tb2/courses/phil211/burnet/ch2.htm (10859 words)

	Timeline of Ancient Greece
		Cylon, Athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries to make himself king, fails
		Pericles, Athenian statesman begins Golden Age, he was taught by Anaxagoras, who believed in dualistic Universe and atoms
		Lysander captures Athenian fleet, Spartan king Pausanius lays siege to Athens, Cleophon[?] executed, Corinth and Thebes demand destruction of Athens
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/History_of_Ancient_Greece_timeline.html (920 words)

	Friends of Classics - Ancient and Modern (Site not responding. Last check: )
		There the Athenians laid siege to them and, when their food and water had run out, a number of them claimed asylum at the altar outside the Temple of Athena.
		When the Athenians saw this, they persuaded them to leave the altar of their own free will, on the understanding that they would not be harmed.
		An ancient Athenian witnessing the lying of government and its hangers-on over the Stephen Byers affair would have been no more or less surprised than any of us at the sight of someone trying to save his skin.
	www.friends-classics.demon.co.uk /ancientandmodern_spring02.htm (3787 words)

	Vacations Athens Tourism Guide
		The Athenian courage in the battles of Marathon in 490 b.c and in Artemisio in 480b.c, the appearance of the leading role of Athens in 478 b.c, the well-known victory of Eurimedonda that contributed to the liberation of all the greek cities from the Persian domination.
		The “gold century” of the Athenian Democracy unfolds before you in the 5th century b.c, a while after Periklis (490-429 b.c) took charge of the Democratic Party and the First Peloponnesian War came to an end.
		In the beginning of the 19th century the Chronicle reminds us that in 1800 when Lord Elgin situated himself as an ambassador in Constantinople, invoking on the disasters of the ancient Athenian monuments, violently took away parts of the interior decoration of the temples on the Acropolis Mountain.
	www.paesionline.com /europe/greece/athens/introduction.asp (0 words)

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