In the 7th and the 6th centuries BC, the site was taken over by Kylon during the failed Kylonian revolt, and twice by Pisistratus: all attempts directed at seizing political power by coups d ' etat.

In 437 BC, Mnesicles started building the Propylaea, monumental gates with columns of Pentelic marble, partly built upon the old propylaea of Pisistratus.

An earlier temple had stood there, constructed by the tyrant Pisistratus around 550 BC.

* 556 BC — Pisistratus is exiled from Athens to Euboea.

The same year Pisistratus cut taxes, grants of land and resources to the poor and caters for sick and old.

* 527 BC — Pisistratus a tyrant of Athens dies: his son Hippias inherits his power.

* 510 BC — Hippias, second son of Pisistratus and tyrant of Athens, is expelled by a popular revolt supported by Cleomenes I, King of Sparta and his forces.

* 560 BC — An aristocrat named Pisistratus seizes the Acropolis of Athens and declares himself tyrant.

Under Pisistratus of Athens, the Eleusinian Mysteries became pan-Hellenic and pilgrims flocked from Greece and beyond to participate.

Eventually one of Solon's relatives, Pisistratus, ended the factionalism by force, thus instituting an unconstitutionally gained tyranny.

Supported by Pisistratus, he defeated the Megarians either by means of a cunning trick or more directly through heroic battle.

After his return to Athens, Solon became a staunch opponent of Pisistratus.

Solon died shortly after Pisistratus usurped by force the autocratic power that Athens had once freely bestowed upon him.

The first took place in the 6th century BC, directed by the tyrant Pisistratus who ordered that all graves within sight of the temple be dug up and the bodies moved to another nearby island.

Like Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, Dionysius was fond of having literary men about him, such as the historian Philistus, the poet Philoxenus, and the philosopher Plato, but treated them in a most arbitrary manner.

With help from the Alcmaeonidae ( Cleisthenes ' genos, " clan "), he was responsible for overthrowing Hippias, the tyrant son of Pisistratus.

Megacles, the grandson of the above, son of Alcmaeon and member of the Alcmaeonidae family, was an opponent of Pisistratus in the 6th century BC.

He drove out Pisistratus during the latter's first reign as tyrant in 560 BC, but the two then made an alliance with each other, and Pisistratus married Megacles ' daughter.

Herodotus says that they also tricked the Athenians into believing Athena herself had arrived to proclaim Pisistratus tyrant, by dressing up a woman named Phye as the goddess, although Herodotus himself casts doubt on the truth of this story.

However, Megacles turned against Pisistratus when Pisistratus refused to have children with Megacles ' daughter, which brought an end to the second tyranny.

During the tyranny of Pisistratus, the Alcmaeonid Megacles married his daughter to Pisistratus, but when the tyrant refused to have childrenwith her, Megacles banished him.

* 546 BC — Pisistratus, supported by Thebes and Argos, finally takes power in Athens from the aristocratic party and imposes a moderate tyranny, respect, and even imposing against the oligarchy, the laws of Solon and leaving intact the magistracy ( he " merely " to save his family ).

* 543 BC — Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens, purifies the island of Delos ( approximate date ).

Later the Alcmaeonids would claim to have been exiled following Pisistratus ' return in 546 BC so as to distance themselves from possible accusations of complicity, but epigraphic evidence in fact proves that Cleisthenes was archon for the year 525-4.

This Cleisthenes overthrew Hippias, the son and successor of Pisistratus, in 508 BC.

Around 510 BC the Alcmaeonidae family, who had been exiled from Athens, requested that Sparta help them overthrow Hippias, the son of Pisistratus and tyrant of Athens.

We are told that he made an image of Athena dedicated by Callias the contemporary of Pisistratus at Athens about 564 BC.

In rural tidewater Virginia and eastern New England, ' r ' is non-rhotic in accented ( such as " bird ", " work ", " first ", " birthday ") as well as unaccented syllables, although this is declining among the younger generation of speakers.

In the US, magazines and newspapers often do not use it, instead printing " family-friendly " censored versions, usually " n * gg * r ", " n ** ger ", " n ——", and " the N-word "; however, historians and social activists, such as Dick Gregory, criticize the euphemisms and their usage as intellectually dishonest, because using the euphemism " the N-word " instead of nigger robs younger generations of Americans of the full history of Black people in America.

At the time, however, Eric's younger and most famous half-brother Haakon, often nicknamed Aðalsteinsfóstri, had been staying at the West-Saxon court, having been sent there to be reared as fosterson to King Æthelstan ( r. 924 – 939 ).

In December 1825, the diplomatic landscape changed with the death of Tsar Alexander and the succession of his younger brother Nicholas I ( r. 1825-55 ).

He was succeeded by his distant cousin Narishige, the sixth Lord of Udo ( 1755-c1835, r. 1787-1810 ) a direct descendant of Tadatoshi's younger brother Yukitaka ( 1615 – 1645 ).

Naritatsu died without an heir in 1826, and was succeeded by his nephew Narimori ( 1804 – 1860, r. 1826-1860 ), the son of Naritatsu's younger brother Tatsuyuki ( 1784 – 1818 ), who was the seventh lord of Udo.

Victorious in power struggle, Nusrat al-Din Abu Bakr b. Pahlawan Muhammad ( ruled 1195-1210 ) had his elder brother Kutlugh Inanch assassinated and forced the younger brother, Amir Mihran, to take refuge at the court of the latter ’ s brother-in-law, Shirvanshah Akhsitan I b. Manuchehr ( r. 1160-1196 ).

Her privileges, honors, and her royal style and dignity were transferred to her younger sister, Princess Koriand ' r ( who would later become known as Starfire ).

Komand ' r was her sister's master and made the most of her younger sister's bondage with years of horrific servitude and torture.

The only other named Tamaraneans are Komand ' r, Starfire's sister ( also known as Blackfire ), her younger brother Ryand ' r and her parents, Myand ' r and Luand ' r.

Additionally, Starfire's parents and younger brother Ryand ' r are never seen, though her guardian, Galfore, does appear in the episode " Betrothed ".

Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom Brannon.

`` Fella '', Ernie waggled a dirty finger at the younger man, `` you try my ever-lovin' patience ''.

It was a brilliant debut, so much so indeed that it aroused a new vitality in the younger poets, as did Byron's Childe Harold.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.

Unlike his younger brother, Joe, he never presumed to address her more familiarly than as `` My dear friend '', although he praised and envied the elegance and purity of her style.

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

I came under the spell of a younger group in the church led by the pastor's older son.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

Perhaps his most important private activity was the combination of reading, discussion with a few -- if we can trust his writings to Diodati and the younger Gill, very few -- congenial companions.

The immense amount of interest that the new jazz had for the younger generation must have impressed him, and he began working toward the merger of jazz and poetry, as he had previously attempted the union of graphic art and poetry.

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

Mme Vienot, considerably younger and very different.

There was the day Uncle Izaak had, in an unexpected grandiose gesture, handed over the pretty sloop to Abel for keeps, on condition that he never fail to let his brother accompany him whenever younger the boy wished.

`` He's ten years younger than Ernest.

In a joint interview Mr. and Mrs. B. were helped to understand the meaning of a younger son's wandering away from home in terms of his feelings of displacement in reaction to the arrival of the twins.

It is significant, too, that the older teen-agers I interviewed believed, unlike the younger ones, that Jewish students tend to do better academically than their gentile counterparts.

A picture of her in high school comes from a younger schoolmate, Albert S. Flint, friend of her brother Winslow, and later, like Winslow, a noted astronomer.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

The older parents continued to teach their children traditional principles, but the younger people, who have lost all faith and convictions, are now parents.

Kitti was thirty years younger than Stanley, taller than Stanley, prettier than Stanley had any right to hope for, much less expect.