510 Expulsion of the Peisistratidæ. Democratic constitution of
Cleisthenes.
Approximate date of incident in the legend that Æschylos was set
to watch grapes as they were ripening for the vintage, and fell
asleep; and lo! as he slept Dionysos appeared to him and bade
him give himself to write tragedies for the great festival of
the god. And when he awoke, he found himself invested with new
powers of thought and utterance, and the work was as easy to him
as if he had been trained to it for many years (Pausan, _Att._
i. 21, § 3).[1]