"Kylonian" meaning in English

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          "text": "The Kylonian affair bears witness to a subtle but noteworthy transformation: the Athenians were developing from passive members of a social hierarchy into active shareholders in a political community.",
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          "text": "The Kylonian conspirators who had taken sanctuary in the temple of Athena on the Acropolis were persuaded by the archon Megakles ‘to come down for trial’.",
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          "text": "There still remained, if not a considerable Kylonian party, at least a large body of persons who resented the way in which the Kylonians bad been put to death, and who became in consequence bitter enemies of Megaklês the archon, and of the great family of the Alkmæônidæ, to which he belonged.",
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          "text": "The same process of evolution perhaps is discernible in two other signs of territorial awareness in this general period: the boundaries of Attika sworn to be guarded by the ephēboi and the decision of the Athenians to cast the bodies of deceased Alkmeonids, the family polluted by their role in the murder of the Kylonians, “beyond the borders” of Attika (hyper tous horous: Plut. Sol. 12.3, cf. Ath. Pol. 1).",
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          "text": "According to Plutarch, after the killing (and until, it seems, the exile of the Alkmaionids and the religious reforms of Epimenides) there occurred a prolonged civil and religious crisis: the Kylonian pollution agitated the city-state for a long time, the constant conflict between the surviving Kylonians and the Alkmaionids divided the people (demos), and the city-state was visited with superstitious fears, strange appearances, and pollutions.",
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