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TIL that the first statue in Athens which was funded by the state without depicting a god/gods, was the one of Armodios and Aristogeiton, who killed the brother of the tyrant Hippias, son of Peisistratos. The event led to intervention by Sparta, and ultimately the democratic reforms of Kleisthenes.

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