The Good Tyrant, Pisistratus

        On Thursday in Western Civilization class we got to learn even more about none other than the Greeks in a video! In this video, we learned about a man, named Pisistratus, who seized power or a tyrant using an extremely tall women from nearby village, he claimed she was Athena, and convinced the Athenians that he was being guarded by a God which in turn made them give him the power to rule Athens. After he gained this power, we learned he was actually one of the good tyrants and started to lower taxes and gives loans to the serfs, who were lower class citizens at the time. He made it so that the serfs were no longer stuck in their class and controlled by the aristocrats. Meaning, everyone was equal, the way it should be.