Peisistratus: References & Edit History

The main ancient sources are Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 59–64; and Aristotle, Constitution of Athens, ch. 13–17. N.G.L. Hammond, A History of Greece to 322 B.C., 2nd ed. (1967), ch. 6 and 8, cites other minor sources and gives the political development. The constitutional aspects are treated in C. Hignett, A History of the Athenian Constitution to the End of the Fifth Century B.C. (1952), ch. 5. A. Andrewes, The Greek Tyrants (1956), thoughtfully compares Peisistratus with other Greek tyrants.