Pisistratus by trickery deprives Solon of his sovereignty, illustration in Sylvain Maréchal's History of Greece, c. 1790.
The scene depicted here is the arrival of a wounded Pisistratus (c. 600-527 BCE) to the Athenian agora, claiming to the crowds to have survived assassination and pleading for protection. Granted a bodyguard despite the protestations of his mentor Solon, he quickly seized power of the ancient Greek city-state, becoming the tyrant of Athens.
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