answersLogoWhite

0

It began in 508 BCE after the ouster of the tyrant Hippias, when Cleisthenes overcame the aristocratic party to give the citizens in assembly the power to make laws. After various setbacks when the aristocracy regained power after leading the resistance to the Persian invasion, democracy was given new life by Ephialtes in 461 BCE who collapsed aristocratic power, and after his assassination for this, his deputy Pericles took it further to a radicalised form.

User Avatar

Wiki User

11y ago

What else can I help you with?