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What does Peisistratus mean?

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Proper noun
  1. Tyrant of Athens from 546 to 527/8 BCE who promoted cultural and financial prosperity of Athens.
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For Hereas of Megara says that Peisistratus removed this verse from the works of Hesiod.
Between the eupatrid oligarchy and the rule of Peisistratus there comes the timocracy of Solon.
Peisistratus was the first architect of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
From there, Telemachus rides overland, accompanied by Nestor's son Peisistratus, to Sparta, where he finds Menelaus and Helen, who have somewhat reconciled.

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