Isagoras
Family: Athenian · Role: political rival of Cleisthenes · First appears: Book 5 · §63–69
Life events
- Cleisthenes and Isagoras entered a power struggle, and Cleisthenes joined forces with the people.(Book 5 · §63–69 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Cleisthenes (Athens) Alcmaion Tisander
- “These men came to party strife for power; and then Cleisthenes was being worsted in the struggle, he made common cause with the people.”
Book 5 · §63–69
- parent: Tisander “Isagoras, the son of Tisander”
- rivals with Cleisthenes (Athens) “These men came to party strife for power”
Book 5 · §70–77
- with Cleomenes (Political allies in this action.) “Cleomenes with Isagoras and his partisans seized the Acropolis.”
- friends with Cleomenes “he called in Cleomenes the Lacedemonian to help him, who had been a guest-friend to himself since the siege of the sons of Peisistratos”
- with Cleomenes (Isagoras sought Cleomenes' help.) “he called in Cleomenes the Lacedemonian to help him”
- enemies with Cleisthenes “this message he sent by instruction of Isagoras, for the Alcmaionidai and their party were accused of the murder to which reference was thus made, while he and his friends had no part in it.”
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