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016 The "Age of Tyranny"

The History of Ancient Greece

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Klysthenes and the Battle of Sicon

Aristotle says the events at Sicon are an example of one tyranny replacing another. Klysthenes may have used ethnic prejudice in his pursuit of power. For Yete, Swinemen, Aniette, the Asmen, and Hyata, Pigmen, the non-Dorian tribe was renamed Archalaeoae, or rulers of the people.

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