historyfilia:

so there was this guy, you know, Pisistratus from Athens. and he wanted the power, but people didn’t want him. so he dressed a Paenian woman
named Phye in clothing and armour which resembled 

Athena
and rode into the city on a chariot,

claiming to be accompanied by the Goddess
herself. Herodotus called this
“the silliest trick which history has to record"

and i wonder, Athenians
were

all blind or they were just not as smart as we usually think