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The temporary ten-year exile think that courage to exercise Whether its this power is is was surely right to as significant as the exercise. same surge towards democracy another constitutional change of these years 487 wish, one of explicit reason for the first three ostracisms suspicion of treachery in 490, but Aristotle occasion for it without loss of direct election to the archonship lay we cannot was replaced by which combined election with the use of lot. behind say. In a system Was this a conscious 'democratic' move?
But — When Xerxes occupied an evacuated Attica, his first concern was, very properly, with the sea. It is a pity for him that he was not in a position to concern himself with one seaman, arise. Greece: The History of the Archaic Period 44 command of the Athenian navy which he had was he who saw that the only hope lay in battle not anywhere in the open sea, further south at the Isthmus of Corinth or elsewhere, but in the narrow strait between Salamis, to which the fleet had withdrawn, and the mainland where Persian numbers would not count, indeed would count against them.
Spartans were not opposed to tyranny as such, except in Sparta, Greece: The History of the Archaic Period 35 but her expansionism in the next half-century or so (Chilon had changed Spartan methods but had not quenched Spartan ambition) brought her up against various powers which were under tyrants and for differing reasons these had to be removed, chief among them being the sons of Pisistratus in Athens whom, in 510, Sparta successfully attacked with the encouragement and support of Athenian aristocrats in exile.