CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Themistocles, Alcibiades, Epikleros

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 102
• Professor: Fabio Colivicchi

Document Summary

Clst 102 oct 12th lecture 12. Included men, women, children, metics, freed slaves, slaves. Probably around 50000/60000 citizens at the beginning of the peloponnesian war. Only male citizens 18+ had active political rights. Around 30,000 in the 4th century bce. Metics: 10,000 in the late 4th c. bce, probably 20,000/30,000 in the 5th c. bce. Athe(cid:374)ia(cid:374)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)side(cid:396)ed the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es auto(cid:272)htho(cid:374)ous = (cid:862)sp(cid:396)u(cid:374)g f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the soil of thei(cid:396) la(cid:374)d(cid:863), the o(cid:396)igi(cid:374)al. Slaves: very difficult to estimate, perhaps between 50,000 and 100,000. Including women and children, at least four times the above figures inhabitants = descendants of ion son of apollo and the athenian queen kreousa (cid:1008)(cid:1009)1 bce pe(cid:396)ikles(cid:859) (cid:272)itize(cid:374)ship la(cid:449): o(cid:374)ly (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)hose pa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ts (cid:449)e(cid:396)e (cid:271)oth athe(cid:374)ia(cid:374) (cid:395)ualify as citizens. Oikos = (cid:858)hou ehold(cid:859) kurios= master; the senior male kureia = protection, tutelage. Kins (minor sons and women), slaves, all the property under the control of the kurios.