Question: Policital leadership of athens was passed to a decendant of what powerful and historically influential family?
Sentence (from "Ephialtes"): In the late 460s BC, he oversaw reforms that diminished the power of the Areopagus, a traditional bastion of conservatism, and which are considered by many modern historians to mark the beginning of the "radical democracy" for which Athens would become famous.
Relevant evidence: No