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Having gained the favour of the people, Aristodemus then made himself tyrant of Cumae, and was said to have arranged for many of the nobles to be put to death or sent into exile. He secured his power by surrounding himself with a strong bodyguard and by recruiting mercenaries. Aristodemus had a major
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he ordered the boys to wear their hair long like the girls, to adorn it with flowers, to keep it curled and to bind up the tresses with hair-nets, to wear embroidered robes that reached down to their feet, and, over these, thin and soft mantles, and to pass their lives in the
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Aristodemus became Tarquinius' heir, and in 492 BC, when Roman envoys travelled to Cumae to purchase grain, Aristodemus seized the envoys' vessels in response to the Romans' having seized the property of Tarquinius at the time of Tarquinius' exile.
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influence on the political and social life of the city. He compelled the male descendants of the exiled nobles to be raised in the countryside as if they were slaves; in order to de-politicize the common male youth in the city,
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Aristodemus compelled girls "to bob their hair and to wear boy's clothes and the short undergarment."
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Around 490 BC the exiled nobles and their sons, supported by
Campanians and mercenaries, were able to take possession of Cumae, and took cruel vengeance on Aristodemus and his family.
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