AR104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ostracon, Peloponnesian League, Pnyx
23 Sep 2013
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Synoecism: political unification of attica with athens as its political centre. 3 chief archons: archon basileus (king archon; religious function, polemarch (chief general, eponymous/chief (head of state; gave name to the year) 6 junior archons: the thesmothetes: court officials. Council of the areopagus: advised archons and gave approval. Backed by father-in-law, the tyrant of megara. Followers take refuge in temple massacred. Homicide now presided over by state not family. Dept reforms: shaking off of burdens: cancelled existing depts. on farms, prohibition of poor being sold into slavery for dept, freeing of citizens who had been made slaves. Reforms of solon (eponymous archon) c. 594 bce. Know this: pentecosiomedimi: 500+ bushels; all political offices, hippies: 300+ bushels; calvary; all but treasurer, zeugitae: 200+ bushels; hoplites; not treasurer or archon, thetes: less than 200 bushels; navy/light armed troops; attended assembly; jurors. Created the council of 400: chosen from the 4 property classes, prepared agenda for assembly.
