POLS 1000 Lecture 5: Week 5 - Ancient Democracy in Athens
2 Nov 2016
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Athens has been transformed by these legislatures (solon, kleisthenes) - is transformed into a ourishing city. Isonomy - equality before the laws (key concept for the exam, explain the transition to democracy) Central institution is the assembly - the power of speech is very important. Council (boule) tasks were to prepare the sessions for the assembly and also to implement the decisions the assembly make (500 members of council drawn by lot and sit on council for. 1 year - can be a member of council twice in your life but not directly after rst year) Selected from the demes of kleisthenes - each tribe had 50 members, you had to be 30 years old. Each tribal group of 50 would exercise power for about 36 days (called a prytane) and after the 36 days it would be the turn of the next tribe to run the council (around 4 different.
