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This is no firm date of birth recorded for Hippias, but we do know that he died in 490 BC.
He was "Tyrant of Athens" from 528/527 to 510 BC, so it's assumed that he was born sometime in the 550's or 540's BC.
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How did Solon change Athenian society?
Is this your homework question? It sounds like it. I suggest you research the following individuals, however: Solon, Pisistratos, Hippias and Hipparchos (Pisistratos' sons), and Kleisthenes/Cleisthenes. They are some of the key figures in the beginning of the democracy. Read a book to find out more - I recommend Greece in he Making by Robin Osborne, which you should be able to find in a city or school library.
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Gary Born was born in 1955.
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How was hippias a different ruler than his father pysistritus?
Big different
Why in 508 BCE did Athens turn to a democratic form of government?
In reaction to the tyranny of Hippias.
Where did Hippias die?
He was with the Persians at the battle of Marathon and is said to have died on the way back at Lemnos in 490 BC.
Who was too friendly with Persia?
Hippias, the tyrant of Athens who was expelled, and went to Persia for help. King Darius I sent him with the Persian punitive expedition against Athens in 490 BCE to take control of Athens again and keep it quiet. The expedition failed at Marathon, and Hippias died there.
What were some sophists in ancient Greece?
Diagoras, Gorgias, Protagoras, Antiphon, Prodicus, Critias of Athens, Hippias of Elis etc
Who helped the Persian what did he tell them to do in the battle of Marothon?
The ex-tyrant of Athens Hippias who the Persians intended to re-install in Athens after they captured it.
What government was first introduced in Athens in 526 bc?
In 527-526 after the tyrant Peisistratus died he was replaced jointly by his sons Hipparchus and Hippias.
What was the city democracy began?
The first democracy in Athens was installed in 507 BCE by Cleisthenes in the face of an attempt by the oligarchs to regain power after the expulsion of the tyrant Hippias..
What is a conflict that brought two city-states together?
Sparta helped Athens expel its tyrant Hippias, providing a force to besiege him and force his exit into exile in Persia.
How might the history of Greece have changed if Persia won the battle at marathon?
The Persians had brought along the Athenian ex-tyrant Hippias who had been ousted twenty years before, who they intended to have rule Athens for them and keep it quiet. The Athenians would in due course have got rid of Hippias again and gone back to their own ways. So the history of Greece might have just paused for a decade then gone on just the same.
Who were Pisistratus Hipparchus Hippias?
Tyrant of Athens in the second half of the 6th Century BCE. Appointed to resolve looming civil war between the aristocrats and the repressed lower class.
Who is Cleisthenes and why is he important to Greek history?
Cleisthenes was a leading politician in Athens after the expulsion of the tyrant Hippias in the late 6th Century BCE. He began the first steps towards Athenian democracy.
