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Aristion
Aristion was an Athenian philosopher who seized power as tyrant of Athens and brought the city to the side of Mithridates VI of Pontus against Rome in the First Mithridatic War. The Roman general Sulla besieged Athens and Piraeus, stormed the city on 1 March 86 BCE, and had Aristion put to death.
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