15 minutes of fame: Kleisthenes, father of Athenian democracy
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Isis Is Aristocratic Ancestry. Is It Democracies?
He's the grandson of a tyrant as well. So this guy is not your outsider, young rebel coming in to shake it up and change with brand new ideas. This guy is absolutely the product of the athenian political system of the time. And no, including clysenes himself, woke up one morning when eureka, i've had a brilliant idea. Let's call it democracy.
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