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Cleisthenes the Father of Athenian Democracy and the Great Reforms
Before Pericles and the golden age, there was Cleisthenes—the aristocrat who broke the power of the old clans and invented a radical new system of tribal democracy. This episode unpacks the reforms of 508/7 BCE: how Cleisthenes redrew the map of Attica into thirty trittyes and ten artificial tribes, creating a civic identity that cut across family loyalties. We follow his struggle against Isagoras and the Spartan king Cleomenes, the mysterious role of the common people (the demos) who rose up to force the reforms through, and the creation of ostracism—the strange Athenian procedure for…
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