CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hephaestus, Bouleuterion
10 Dec 2014
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***see attached plan of the athenian agora and http://plato-dialogues. org/tools/agora. htm. Early archaic demos = 4 tribes: each tribe headed by powerful aristocratic families. How to achieve rule by the people (democracy): achieved by reducing the control of the aristocracy legally, politically, economically. 1st written law coed in athens death penalty widely used: draconian: excessively harsh, laws were put out on painted boards so all know the laws. Perikles: political reform pay for public duties pay for heliaia (jury) par for boule & ekklesia money: poor could now participate since weren"t using time they could spend getting. Athenian democracy **memorize what each person did*: drako, solon, kleisthenes, themistokles, perikles, every year, all the people in the government changed participatory. Asty: areopagus, pnyx, agora: pnyx hill slightly higher than the areopagus hill since they have more power, main gateway to athens: dipylon &sacred gates. Honnoured zeus as the savoir of the athenians against the persians.
