A promoter of Isonomia and opponent of Isagoras, his family received a curse from the oracle at Delphi for a murder committed by his grandfather, Megacles.
A promoter of Isonomia and opponent of Isagoras, his family received a curse from the oracle at Delphi for a murder committed by his grandfather, Megacles. He overthrew Hippias with the aid of Sparta, but the Spartan king Cleomenes joined the Eupadrids in forcing this man's exile. He divided the demes of Attica into regions of ten groups of trittyes, and he organized the meetings of groups of fifty tribesmen annually which were known as the prytanies. A member of the Alcmaeonid family, —for 10 points —identify this man who expanded the Council of Four Hundred to Five Hundred and founded Athenian democracy.
A promoter of Isonomia and opponent of Isagoras, his family received a curse from the oracle at Delphi for a murder committed by his grandfather, Megacles.
{Cleisthenes}