HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cylon Of Athens, Timocracy, Solonian Constitution
24 Dec 2017
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Athenocentrism- we look at greek history through an athenian lens. It lays out the development of how they distributed power, chronological development. A shift from having a straight heritage monarchy and. Positions of government that includes the archon and the. Shift from having a strait hereditary monarchy towards aristocrats being given magistrates. Thesmothetai being given the capability to set laws. Council of areiopagos supervising role, decide what punishments to be given out, come to be known as the eleven, all elites and difficult to join. Network of tyrants and he is going to fail becoming a tyrant. Know this word alkmaioanidai (family full out of artrisocrats) The family is going to be cursed. When you write laws down you fix them. (they can be consulted and have strict laws for the population and it guarantees for fairness) When laws exists orally you can"t defend what you said.
