[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Overthrow and Revolution

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Overthrow and Revolution In 514 B.C. the tyrant Hipparchos was stabbed to death. The murder, actually the result of a love feud, was quickly deemed a political act of assassination and the perpetrators, ... For several decades the Spartans had enjoyed a reputation as the best warriors in Greece, and with the help of a Spartan army led by King Kleomenes the tyrants were thrown out in 510 B.C. ... Isagoras then called in the Spartans again. Kleomenes expelled 700 Athenian families, who joined Kleisthenes in exile. When Kleomenes and Isagoras tried to rescind the new Kleisthenic constitution, however, the Athenian people rose up in arms against them, threw the Spartans out, and recalled Kleisthenes.

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Military Service

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Military Service After the 18-year-old was registered in his deme as a citizen and was approved by the Council, he entered military service as a young conscript (ephebe) with other members of his tribe ... Just as the grief was public, so was the memorial of honor and glory won, like the shields taken from the Spartans in 425/4 B.C. at Pylos and hung as trophies on the Stoa Poikile (13). ... Bronze shield captured from the Spartans at Pylos in 425/4 B.C.