It is surprising that this trick worked. Greeks have always been more intelligent than barbarians. And Athenias even more so, they are the smartest of all Greeks.
Yet Pisistratus the tyrant, got his position back with a very simple trick: he found a pretty and quite tall girl from the peasants and dressed as if she were the godess Athena. With full armor and other accessories the girl rode with him in a chariot. And Pisistratus had heralds announce that Athena herself was bringing him back to power.
(Herodotus – Histories, 1.60)
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