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The Athenian aristocracy was abusing its power, so a tyrant was installed to give a degree of equality. When people turned away from the tyrant, the aristocracy tried to take over power again but was forestalled by Cleisthenes in 508 BCE introducing a limited democracy. This was suspended during the Persian War as the aristocrats were best qualified to run the war, but it was reinstated in 460 BCE by Ephialtes. He was murdered for this but his deputy Pericles kept it going and then radicalised it with total power to the popular assembly.

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