CLCV 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Strategos, Prytaneis, Sherd

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1002
• Professor: Gahan J.J.

Document Summary

Solon (sole archon, 594 b. c. : economic reforms: Annulled all debts of the farmers, who how were in heavy debts to the aristocrats. Prohibited export of wheat; encourage the cultivation of olives for consumption/ use at home and abroad: political reforms. System of four classes based on property wealth; Top two classes eligible to be elected annually to the board of the. All three upper classes eligible to hold public office and serve on a new council (below) Only the lowest class was excluded from public office, but they became members of a more powerful ekklesia. (page 50, bottom paragraph) Boule (new council) of 400 (100 representatives from each other the 4 original kinship tribes. The ekklesia is now no longer subject to the areopagus (aristocracy), as the boule acts at it steering wheel: judicial reforms: Gave the people power to run the state, instead of it being organized along aristocrats" line. Areopagus = council of ex-archons: {after 487 b. c.