...him his daughter to wife and the sovereign power besides. This offer being accepted by Pisistratus, who agreed on these terms with Megacles, they devised...devise such a plan to deceive Athenians, said to be the cunningestof the Greeks. There was in the Paeanian deme J a woman called Phya, three fingers short...

...him his daughter to wife and the sovereign power besides. This offer being accepted by Pisistratus, who agreed on these terms with Megacles, they devised...cunningest of the Greeks. There was in the Paeanian deme a woman called Phya, three fingers short of four cubits in stature, and for the rest fair to look...

...aneKpiOri tK iraXairepov TOV flapfidpov tOveos TO tov Kal 8e£i(j['Tepov Kai evrjOirjs rj\iOiov . . . seeing that from old times the Hellenic has ever been...cleverness and its freedom from silly foolishness. Herodotus i, 60 (trans. AD Godley) Xdf$w[i.ev 8e eof ornrep av "EXXrjves KaXXiov ToVTo ft'? Te'Ao?...

...that Pisistratus had come to power by a silly trick involving a giant statue of Athena. "[This plan] was so exceeding foolish that it is strange (seeing...Athenians, said to be the cunningest of the Greeks" (1.60). The subordination of the episodic chronologies to spatial orientation is clearest as the major...

...Had not Herodotus treated as a joke the return of Pisistratus led by a woman masquerading as Athena?: "Seeing that from old times the Hellenic has ever been distinguished from the Barbarian stock by its greater cleverness and its freedom from silly foolishness, [it is strange] that...