Athenian coup of 411 BC state of Athens remained an anomaly, however, as the rest of the Greek city states were run either as tyrannies or, most often, by oligarchies. Both Thucydides and Aristotle wrote that "the revolution was provoked by defeat in Sicily." Despite the democracy in Athens, Greek tradition remained aristocratic, and the works of Homer celebrated an aristocratic world view, where the nobles made decisions and the commoners obeyed. The poems of Theognis of Megara (from the sixth century BC) and the Theban poet Pindar (of the fifth century BC) were popular among the Athenian nobles at this time, casting democracy as
Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) to repel them through the use of Scythians to maintain his Greek troops disciplined and stable. Siege of Theodosia (c. 360 BC) The Siege of Theodosia in was the third and final siege by the Bosporan Kingdom under Leukon I against the city of Theodosia, a probable colony of Heraclea Pontica, who had aided the city in two previous sieges. In the first siege, Satyros I, the father of Leukon, besieged the city but lost his life there at the age of 81. After having been tricked by Tynnichus, Leukon retreated back to Panticapaeum. After his defeat, Leukon had to