Who was Hippias? Harmodius and Aristogeiton attacking Hippias and Hipparchus Hippias and Hipparchus When the tyrant Pisistratus died in 528 BC, his two sons, Hippias and Hipparchus, took over ruling Athens [...]
Harmodius and Aristogeiton To understand more about tyranny, play a game with a group of kids (about 25 is perfect) where you decide whether to have a tyrant, and who [...]
Archaic Greece: Stone statues of Kleobis and Biton Oligarchy and temples By around 1000 BC people in Greece were starting to rebuild their civilization after the Dark Age. Greek Dark [...]
Corinth, Greece: Corinthian aryballos (perfume jar) in the shape of an owl (now in the Louvre, Paris) Corinth, Greece: A Greek city-state sells perfume and pottery In the 800s and [...]
Obol minted under Pisistratus with the head of Medusa At first people were happy with Solon's changes. They had their farms back, and they didn't owe any money, and they [...]
Kritios Boy statue from the time of the tyranny in Athens In Greece and West Asia, mainly in what is now Turkey, there was a period of time around 650-400 [...]
Remains of the ziggurat at Warka, in Iraq, from about 3000 BC Probably the first states began in Sumer, around 3500 BC. There were also early states in Iran, India [...]
