# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cleisthenes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:11:07.997Z

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description: "He broke the grip of Athenian aristocrats and handed power to the assembly — the 508 BC constitutional redesign that made democracy possible. Twenty-five centuries later, historians still call him its father."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born around 570 BC into the aristocratic Alcmaeonid clan, Cleisthenes was the younger son of Megacles and grandson of a Sicyonian tyrant. After Spartan hoplites helped overthrow the tyrant Hippias in 510 BC, Sparta's king installed a pro-Spartan oligarchy under Isagoras. Cleisthenes rallied the middle class and democrats, seized control, and survived two Spartan interventions in 508 and 506 BC. His reforms gave Athens isonomic institutions — equal rights for all citizens, though only free men and women qualified — and introduced ostracism as a check on power. He died around 508 BC, having shifted authority from the nobility to the citizens' assembly.