Tyranny to Democracy

• Athens Under Tyrants 3 notes
  • The Nature and Structure of Peisistratid Rule
  • The Assassination of Hipparchus and its Aftermath
  • The Spartan Invasion and the Fall of Hippias

• Tyranny in Samos 4 notes
  • Polycrates' Rise to Power and Public Works
  • Polycrates' International Relations and External Opposition
  • The Succession Crisis: Maeandrius, Syloson, and Persia
  • Comparing Samian and Athenian Tyranny

• Emergence of Democracy 2 notes
  • Cleisthenes’ Rise and the Reforms of Athenian Democracy
  • The Spartan Reaction and Corinthian Opposition to Tyranny

• Democracy in Action 3 notes
  • Democratic Institutions: Strategoi, Archonship and Ostracism
  • Athenian Foreign Policy and the Ionian Revolt
  • War and Leadership: Marathon, the Navy and Key Individuals

Appendix 5d Ancient Sources

• Herodotus
• Thucydides
• Other Literary Sources 2 notes
  • Aristotle and The Old Oligarch: Constitutional Sources
  • Plutarch and Cornelius Nepos: Biographical Sources
• Archaeological Sources