CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dreros, Polemarch, Komos
24 Sep 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Under leadership of athens-> all one polis. Republican" annual election of a body of magistrates. Oikos (household) nuclear family + any slaves; headed by adult male (kyrios) Every family of citizens belongs to one of four phylai (pl. ) Son-in law of theagenes, tyrant of megara. Reputation for extreme harshness: death, death and more death. Same penalty for stealing a vegetable as stealing a sacred object from a temple or for murder. Early 500s bc increasing economic disparity in athens. Inscribed on revolving wooden boards in the public market (agora) E. g. , law against exports except olive oil. 100 male citizens from each athenian phyl . Athens is divided by 3 different groups: pisistratus (men beyond the hills, lycurgus (men of the plains, megacles (men of the coast) Creation of classes of citizens based on agricultural production: Timocracy: breaks the monopoly of the birth nobility: new nobility is a wealth elite. Supports agriculture; low interest loans to farmers.
