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with the help of the Spartan king Cleomenes. The expulsion of the tyrants came to
be regarded as a landmark in the evolution of the constitution.
In the struggle for power that followed, the leader of one of the aristocratic
factions, Cleisthenes, who, according to the historian Herodotus, ‘was getting the

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FIGURE 13 The reforms of Cleisthenes. Attica is split into three regions: the city, the
inland and the coast. Each region has ten trittys. Each tribe (represented by Roman
numerals on the map) has one trittysfrom each region