GRK 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Solonian Constitution, List Of Tyrants Of Syracuse, Phidias
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Tyranos neutral connotation: 6th 4th century bc (archaic, peisistratus of athens builds more modern temples. His assassination is planned in 512 but it falls through. Overthrown by spartans two years later because they are least democratic state: deinomenids tyrants of syracuse. Democracy: normally there is a conflict between rich and poor or between clans, draco asked to create law code to settle differences between clans. Class warfare becomes new conflict: solon asked to fix class warfare. Tries to buy back slaves that were sold abroad. Pentekosiamedimnoi richest (more than 500 bushels of grain per year) Hippeis knights (more than 300 bushels of grain per year) Zeugitae average farmer (about 150 bushels of grain per year) Thetes hourly wage workers (most common) (can vote in assembly like everyone else but can"t hold political positions) Reforms judicial system so hippeis can also serve on jury: not yet true democracy, crises faced by city-states.
