016 The "Age of Tyranny"
The History of Ancient Greece
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The History of Sicaeon
Klysthenes, who ruled from around 600 to 570 BC, attracted attention of Herodotus by his overtly ethnic policies. He stopped the recitation of Homeric poems because they praised Argive deeds. After his failure to remove the shrine of the Argive hero, Adratus, he persuaded the Thebans to give him the statue of Adratus' mortal enemy Melanippus. This may be the first use of political propaganda in Greek history.
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