This winner of the Battle of Pallene near Mt. Hymettus married the daughter of the Alcmaeonid patriarch Megacles but was driven out of town for having sex with her ou kata nomon, or 'not according to custom'.
This man claimed descent from the Neleids of Pylos and gained a political start by capturing the harbor of Megara. This winner of the Battle of Pallene near Mt. Hymettus married the daughter of the Alcmaeonid patriarch Megacles but was driven out of town for having sex with her ou kata nomon, or 'not according to custom'. He dressed a tall woman named Phue (foo-ay) like Athena and rode into Athens on a golden chariot with her in an unlikely yet successful coup attempt. He constructed the Enneakrounos fountain, instituted a system of traveling judges, and had the first major Telesterion built for the Eleusinian Mysteries. He created the Panathenaea and the City Dionysia, and his sons were the target of a conspiracy by Harmodius and Aristogeiton. The father of Hippias and Hipparchus, For 10 points, name this Athenian populist tyrant, namesake of a dynasty in the 6th century BC.
This man claimed descent from the Neleids of Pylos and gained a political start by capturing the harbor of Megara.
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