Lycurgus (Athens)

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Lykurgos (Greek Λυκοῦργος ) was an Athenian politician from the Eteobutad family in the first half of the 6th century BC. He was the son of Aristolaides.

Lykurg was a representative of the "people from the plain" ( Pediakoi or Pedieis ) and in the power struggles to establish a tyranny in Athens, together with Megakles , the representative of the coastal inhabitants ( Paraloi or Paralioi ), an opponent of the Peisistratos as a representative of the mountain inhabitants ( Diakrioi) . After Peisistratos 561/560 BC BC occupied the Acropolis and proclaimed himself a tyrant, Lycurgus and Megacles managed to drive him out of Athens. Soon afterwards there was an alliance between Megakles and Peisistratos, and the latter came about in 557/556 BC. To power. But soon afterwards Lykurg and Megakles got together again and expelled in 555 BC. Chr. Peisistratos into exile to Evia . The Lykurg-Megakles alliance also disintegrated, however, and Megakles called Peisistratos 546/545 BC. BC again, who could now finally prevail and establish his tyranny. Lykurg's further fate is not known.

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