on Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, _Arist.
und Athen._ See also BOLL[=E]; ECCLESIA; OSTRACISM; NAUCRARY; SOLON.

2. CLEISTHENES OF SICYON (c. 600-570), grandfather of the above, became
tyrant of Sicyon as the representative of the conquered Ionian section
of the inhabitants. He emphasized the destruction of Dorian predominance
by giving ridiculous epithets to their tribal units, which from Hylleis,
Dymanes and Pamphyli become Hyatae ("Swine-men"), Choireatae ("Pig-men")
and Oneatae ("Ass-men"). He also attacked Dorian Argos, and suppressed
the Homeric "rhapsodists" who sang the exploits of Dorian heroes. He
championed the cause of the Delphic oracle against the town of Crisa
(Cirrha) in the Sacred War (c. 590). Crisa was destroyed, and Delphi
became one of the meeting-places of the old amphictyony of Anthela,
henceforward often called the Delphic amphictyony. The Pythian games,
largely on the initiative of Cleisthenes, were re-established with new
magnificence, and Cleisthenes won the first chariot race in 582. He
founded Pythian games at Sicyon, and possibly built a new Sicyonian
treasury at Delphi. His power was so great that when he offered his
daughter Agariste in marriage, some of the most prominent Greeks sought
the honour, which fell upon Megacles, the Alcmaeonid. The story of the
rival wooers with the famous retort, "Hippocleides don't care," is told
in Herod. vi. 125; see also Herod, v. 67 and Thuc. i. 18.

CLEISTHENES is also the name of an Athenian, pilloried by Aristophanes
(_Clouds_, 354; _Thesm._ 574) as a fop and a profligate. (J. M. M.)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The archonship of Isagoras in 508 is important as showing that
Cleisthenes, three years after his return, had so far failed to
secure the support of a majority in Athens. There is no sufficient
reason for supposing that the election of Isagoras was procured by
Cleomenes; all the evidence points to its having been brought about
in the ordinary way. Probably, therefore, Cleisthenes did not take
the people thoroughly into partnership till after the spring of 508.

[2] The explanation given for this step by Herodotus (v. 67) is an
amusing example of his incapacity as a critical historian. To compare
Cleisthenes of Sicyon (see below), bent on humiliating the Dorians of
Sicyon by giving opprobrious names to the Dorian tribes, with his
grandson, whose endeavour was to elevate the very persons whose
tribal