CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Otanes, Strategos, Herodotus
25 Nov 2015
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His constitution was on wealth in the form of land ownerships: In the 590s bce reforms of solon, credited by later sources as the origin of democracy". Highest offices were reserved to the upper class. Solon was interested in the problem of land ownership, trying to avoid the. Poor still had some political/ judicial power concentration of land in the hands of few. Status of citizen is not compatible with the loss of freedom, and that the law guides the actions of the states. Reorganization of the citizenry into new administrative units called philai: tribes. Each tribe was made of a number of demoi, located in different areas of the. Athenian territory (the coast, the hinterland, and the city) Introduced a new council, the boule, which played a very important role in. Isonomia: equal rights of all citizens to exercise their political rights. Demokratia: power of the people, the whole citizenry without limitations.
