Greek individuals: Solon, Peisistratus, Cleomenes I, Themistocles and Thucydides

What this note covers

1. Power in archaic and classical Greece: what context to explain
2. Solon: mediator and lawgiver
3. Peisistratus: tyranny as a route to stability
4. Cleomenes I: a Spartan king who overreached
5. Themistocles: from saviour of Athens to exile in Persia
6. Thucydides: an historian as a figure of power and authority
7. Building a Greek argument: sources, judgements and model thesis

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