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to use his body guard to seize the Acropolis
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and made himself boss of Athens.
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For a five-year stretch from about 561 to 556,
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he was able to rule Athens.
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We know very little about the details of that period,
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but he was a proper tyrant one way or another.
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Then the two factions that were defeated managed
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to get their heads together to plot and to overthrow the tyranny
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to drive Peisistratus out.
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So out, he goes.
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For a period of time he goes abroad, wanders around,
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meets with other important people, goes to see other tyrants,