*Athenian Tryanny- Peisistratus and Family Rule Athens as Tyrants Unified Attica (1 avr. 561 av. J.-C. – 1 juin 510 av. J.-C.)

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In fact, some later writers picture the rule of Peisistratus as a golden age in Athens. We'll come back to that perhaps. But there are two edges to this thing. There's the notion, my God he established a tyranny which later on in Athens would be the worst thing in the world you could do and yet there's this alongside it, this tradition of a decent government under Peisistratus. Yale pg. 145

Another consequence of the tyrannical experience in Athens was a diminution in the power of the aristocracy, and this again is the general story wherever we see tyranny in the Greek world. It never erases aristocracy; you never see the disappearance of the distinction between nobles and commoners, and claims to the aristocracy of birth and descent from the gods. It is always there. Even in the most democratic of Greeks states, like Athens for instance, aristocracy doesn't go away. It's not abolished; it lives side by side with a democratic constitution. But the domination by the aristocracy, the monopoly of all the powers and influence that they used to have, it's not there and that is a tremendously important consequence. So, when the tyranny goes away and it's necessary to reconstruct a new Athenian constitution, the answer will not simply be to return to the old days before the tyrants. 148

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