1 feb 600 anni a. C. - Cleisthenes Tyrant of Sicyon 600-560

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Well, the picture that Herodotus, who is one of our main sources here, the main source I guess, gives us in Sicyon, is one of political oppression of a kind that we haven't run into yet because it is based on--really on ethnic origins and ethnic differences. Here we see, I think without any question, a case of the pre-Dorian Greeks who have been defeated and conquered by Dorians and these groups have been kept separate throughout the centuries, and one was top dog and the other was the underdog.
They hate Argos, because Argos in the Iliad and the Odyssey, the great leader of the Peloponnesians, the wrong guys, and of course Argos in their day is a Dorian city.
So, they're anti-Argos, anti-Dorian and they introduced changes in the tribes. If you go to any Dorian town in the Greek world, there are three tribes, they have the same names in all Dorian towns and that's the way the world is organized. So what did they do? These guys, the Orthagorids changed the tribes. That's interesting too because we'll see that Cleisthenes the Athenian does the same thing.
The old three now were called--I'm translating the Greek words, ass men, pig men, and swine men whereas the non-Dorians were the archelaoi, leaders of the people.

Cleisthenes of Sicyon now is in charge; we're in the sixth century B.C., and he has a daughter and he wants her to have the very best husband that there was available in Greece.. He invites all the best aristocratic, richest, handsomest, most athletic guys in all of Greece to come to Sicyon and spend a year, at his expense, and treated royally all that time to compete for the hand of his daughter and so they all are.

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