Pausanias claims that it was this leader, not a tyrant of Sicyon, who put hellebore in the Pleistos river to poison the citizens of Kirrha. He pretended to be crazy to circumvent a ban on speaking about Salamis while this man's city was waging war with Megara over Salamis. This man invented timocrac
Pausanias claims that it was this leader, not a tyrant of Sicyon, who put hellebore in the Pleistos river to poison the citizens of Kirrha. He pretended to be crazy to circumvent a ban on speaking about Salamis while this man's city was waging war with Megara over Salamis. This man invented timocracy by creating the "five-hundred-bushel men" as the highest of four social classes. Herodotus claims that he said "Count no man happy until he is dead" while visiting Croesus. The (*) Seisachtheia, or "shaking-off," was instituted by this man to free the "hektemoroi" serfs from their debtors. This man established the Council of Four Hundred and rescinded most of Draco's laws. For 10 points, name this man who instituted democracy and his namesake reforms in Athens.
Pausanias claims that it was this leader, not a tyrant of Sicyon, who put hellebore in the Pleistos river to poison the citizens of Kirrha.