• with Hippias gone, Isagoras and Cleisthenes (both were aristocrats - surprise!) engaged in a power struggle
• Isagoras had support from some fellow aristocrats, plus from Sparta
• Cleisthenes had support of the majority of Athenians

• Isagoras becomes archon eponymous (tyrant)
• He ostracizes Cleisthenes
• Cleisthenes’ supporters - and the ordinary Athenian citizens! - revolt against Isagoras’ tyranny
• they trap Isagoras on the acropolis for two days - on the third day he fled and was banished
• 508 BCE !  Yes

• Cleisthenes - definitely a member of the elite
• very rich
• insulated from the “hoi polloi”
• a crafty politician