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Diogenes Laertius, Lives Of The Philosophers, 1.53


nanI am not the only man who has aimed at a tyranny in Greece, nor am I, a descendant of Codrus, unfitted for the part. That is, I resume the privileges which the Athenians swore to confer upon Codrus and his family, although later they took them away. In everything else I commit no offence against God or man; but I leave to the Athenians the management of their affairs according to the ordinances established by you. And they are better governed than they would be under a democracy; for I allow no one to extend his rights, and though I am tyrant I arrogate to myself no undue share of reputation and honour, but merely such stated privileges as belonged to the kings in former times. Every citizen pays a tithe of his property, not to me but to a fund for defraying the cost of the public sacrifices or any other charges on the State or the expenditure on any war which may come upon us.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

9 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 1.258 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.258. /rejoice, and the rest of the Trojans would be most glad at heart, were they to hear all this of you two quarrelling, you who are chief among the Danaans in counsel and chief in war. Listen to me, for you are both younger than I. In earlier times I moved among men more warlike than you
2. Solon, Fragments, 36 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)

3. Herodotus, Histories, 1.64, 1.64.1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1.64. The Athenians did, and by this means Pisistratus gained Athens for the third time, rooting his sovereignty in a strong guard and revenue collected both from Athens and from the district of the river Strymon, and he took hostage the sons of the Athenians who remained and did not leave the city at once, and placed these in Naxos . ,(He had conquered Naxos too and put Lygdamis in charge.) And besides this, he purified the island of Delos as a result of oracles, and this is how he did it: he removed all the dead that were buried in ground within sight of the temple and conveyed them to another part of Delos . ,So Pisistratus was sovereign of Athens : and as for the Athenians, some had fallen in the battle, and some, with the Alcmeonids, were exiles from their native land. 1.64.1. The Athenians did, and by this means Pisistratus gained Athens for the third time, rooting his sovereignty in a strong guard and revenue collected both from Athens and from the district of the river Strymon, and he took hostage the sons of the Athenians who remained and did not leave the city at once, and placed these in Naxos .
4. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.19, 6.54.5 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6.54.5. Indeed, generally their government was not grievous to the multitude, or in any way odious in practice; and these tyrants cultivated wisdom and virtue as much as any, and without exacting from the Athenians more than a twentieth of their income, splendidly adorned their city, and carried on their wars, and provided sacrifices for the temples.
5. Aeschines, Letters, 1.23 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 8.4, 12.3-12.4, 21.3 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

7. Plutarch, Solon, 19.1-19.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

19.1. After he had established the council of the Areiopagus, consisting of those who had been archons year by year (and he himself was a member of this body since he had been archon), he observed that the common people were uneasy and bold in consequence of their release from debt, and therefore established another council besides, consisting of four hundred men, one hundred chosen from each of the four tribes. Cf. Aristot. Const. Ath. 8.4 . These were to deliberate on public matters before the people did, and were not to allow any matter to come before the popular assembly without such previous deliberation. 19.2. Then he made the upper council a general overseer in the state, and guardian of the laws, thinking that the city with its two councils, riding as it were at double anchor, would be less tossed by the surges, and would keep its populace in greater quiet. Now most writers say that the council of the Areiopagus, as I have stated, was established by Solon. And their view seems to be strongly supported by the fact that Draco nowhere makes any mention whatsoever of Areiopagites, but always addresses himself to the ephetai in cases of homicide.
8. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 1.49 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

9. Aeschines, Or., 1.23



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
archons Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
areopagus,council of Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
aristagoras of miletus Gygax (2016) 98
aristocracy,aristocrats,aristocratic,,competition among Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
aristocracy,aristocrats,aristocratic Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
assembly,,athenian (ekklesia) Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
assembly,,the right to address Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
chios Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
cimon,compared to tyrants Gygax (2016) 98
civil strife Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
class Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
class struggle Gygax (2016) 82
cleisthenes Gygax (2016) 82; Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
cleomenes Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
commoners Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
constitution,,ancestral Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
constitution Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
council,,chian Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
council,,of five hundred Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
council,,of four hundred Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
council,,spartan (gerousia) Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
council Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
cypselus of corinth Gygax (2016) 98
demes Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
demos,and elite in the archaic period Gygax (2016) 82
demos (damos),,empowerment of Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
demos (damos),,limitations placed on Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
diogenes laertius Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
egalitarianism Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
eisphora Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
elite,and competition Gygax (2016) 82, 98
elite,archaic Gygax (2016) 82
elite,display by Gygax (2016) 82
eupatrids Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
euthune Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
festivals,in the archaic period Gygax (2016) 82
four-hundred Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
generosity Gygax (2016) 98
great rhetra Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
hektemoroi Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
herodotus Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
hignett,charles Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
hippias Gygax (2016) 98
histiaeus of miletus Gygax (2016) 98
honours,for archaic kings Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
ideology,,democratic Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
inscriptions Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
isagoras Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
land,redistribution of (isomoiria) Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
law Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
lewis,j. d. Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
liturgies,obligatory Gygax (2016) 82
liturgies,under tyrants Gygax (2016) 98
livestock,funds derived from Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
lycurgus (spartan lawgiver) Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
metals,revenues from Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
momigliano,arnaldo Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
ober,josiah,vii–viii Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
oligarchy,oligarchs Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
peisistratus Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
pisistratidae Gygax (2016) 82, 98
pisistratus Gygax (2016) 98; Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
plato Gygax (2016) 98
plutarch Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
politeia Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
polycrates of samos Gygax (2016) 98
probouleusis Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
ps.-aristotle,athenaion politeia Gygax (2016) 98
ps.-xenophon,athenaion politeia Gygax (2016) 82
public office,officials,,accountability of Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64
public office,officials Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
reform Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
revolution Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
rich,the Gygax (2016) 98
solon Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64, 65
taxes,in pisitratid athens Gygax (2016) 82
taxes Gygax (2016) 98
their relationship with other members of the elite,wealth of Gygax (2016) 98
triêrarchiai,triêrarchoi Gygax (2016) 82
tyranny,tyrants Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 65
tyrants,as benefactors of the demos Gygax (2016) 98
tyrants,compared to other members of the elite Gygax (2016) 98
tyrants Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 53
zeugitai' Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007) 64