CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Athenian Democracy, Cleisthenes, Isonomia

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

Document Summary

Clst 102 oct 26th lecture 17. De(cid:373)o(cid:272)(cid:396)a(cid:272)y: (cid:858)go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of the people, (cid:271)y the people, fo(cid:396) the people(cid:859) His constitution was based on wealth in the form of land ownership: the citizens were divided into 4. I(cid:374) the 590s bce (cid:396)efo(cid:396)(cid:373)s of olo(cid:374), (cid:272)(cid:396)edited (cid:271)y late(cid:396) sou(cid:396)(cid:272)es as the (cid:858)o(cid:396)igi(cid:374) of de(cid:373)o(cid:272)(cid:396)a(cid:272)y(cid:859) classes. The highest offices were reserved to the upper class. The poor did have some political and judicial power. Solon was also very interested in the problem of land ownership, trying to avoid the concentration of land in the hands of few. Though athens was not a democracy yet, those principles were basic for the later political developments. Peisist(cid:396)atos(cid:859) so(cid:374) hippias and hipparkhos, 510 bce hippias exiled. Reorganization of the citizenry into new administrative units called phylai (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)