CLAB05H3 Chapter 5: Greece chapter 5
Document Summary
The growth of athens and the persian wars! Sources for early athens: aristotle the athenian constitution, preserved solon poems from earlier writers who could gain access to the lost les, the histories of thucydides and herodotus. The conspiracy of cylon: about 632 bc, cylon attempted to be the tyrant of athens but ended in failure, his slaughterer megacles belongs to the family alcmaeonid, which cleisthenes and pericles belong, too. Pisistratus amd his sons: the inhabitants were loosely divided into the men of the plain, the men of the coast and the men of the hill. The reforms of cleisthenes: cleisthenes established ten new tribes on an extraordinary basis to weaken the force of prestigious lineage in politics, the council of five hundred owned 50 members chosen annually from ten tribes. The use of lot was a key democratic feature of calisthenic system: the archons retained their administrative duties, the army was reorganized on the basis of ten tribes.
