Cleisthenes : (c.570-508 BC), founder of Athenian democracy, made himself by 506 BC the undisputed ruler of the city. He reorganised the social & political constitution on so stable a basis that civil war disappeared from Athenian life.
... an exactly similar conclusion. In Athens and in Rome the first political quarrel is a distinct issue between the man of the people and a limited, perhaps an alien, aristocracy. The force behind Cleisthenes and the constituency that empowered Tiberius Gracchus were not a narrow middle class, but the people with its ancient wrongs and centuries of patient endurance. If then, as we are compelled to ...
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