CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ostracon, Pnyx, Water Clock

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Democracy: demos = people; kratos (cracy) = power. Women, slaves and resident aliens were not equal. They were prohibited in involving themselves in democracy. Polis of the athenians occupied an area of land knowns as attica; theseus (hero, killed the minotaur) synoicism of attica. Asty: fortified urban centre demos: 4 tribes (early archaic age) Drako (c. 620 bce: first written law code in athens, wide use of the death penalty, draconian: excessively harsh. Solon legal reforms: softened draconian laws, created law courts (heliaia, poor eligible for jury duty = power for poor. Political reforms by solon: new ekklesia members: the poor, qualification for office: now wealth (not birth, 4 economic classes of citizens, new boule: council of 400 (4 tribes x 100) Economic reforms by solon: slavery for debt forbidden, debts cancelled, commercial base established he did that by offering foreign craftsman citizenship. Peisistratos (546-527 bcm) typical tyrant: temple, public buildings, water supply, festivals, arts.