The Tyranny Of Pisistradae And The Birth Of Democracy

The birth of Athenian democracy was a slow and tortuous process, and the Pisistradae play an important role at that time.In this paper, through the description of the Pisistradae rule in Athens family, explain the effective of tyrant politics to the democracy, and the evolution of the aristocracy, the tyranny to the democracy in Athenian.The first is the Kulun riots.This is the first challenge for the tyrant to the original aristocracy,the old aristocrats’attitude to this challenge decided its development status.The second is Solon reform, it is an adjustment for the distribution of Athenian politientcal rights.Although it is often criticized as "timocracy",it has a huge effect—democracy gradually infiltrated into the Athenian political situation.Beacuse Solon reform shortcomings became a necessary for new statesman to modify,the Peisistratus tyranny emerged as the time requires.Peisistratus took the power,inplemented the tyranny,it reversed the people’s disadvantage position in the battle with the aristocrats,and for the Athenian democracy forces expansion provide a basis.He is also known as " tyranny,but not a tyrant "。After his son ruled and took the worst tyranny, the Athens democracy was processing fast.In processing of Christini took the power with Political opponents, he took the policy which is tendency to the people,While he was in power after the victory,he took a big democratic reforms in the city-state of Athenian, weakened the aristocrats die-hard forces in the city and countryside to the maximum extent,expansed the Athens citizens political power,established the Athens democracy in the end.It has some historical factors that the tyrant politics and democracy has appeared in Athenian.Peisistratus and Christini were taken people ways to obtain power, but after victory the power for his own use or gave the people decide the political power form and its development. This is one of the important reasons that Athenian tyranny transition to democracy,not resumed the aristocracy.