CLAS 1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Direct Democracy, Trittys
30 Sep 2016
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Note: these are notes i hand wrote and transferred into a digital format. Periods of greek history: bronze age, dark age, archaic c. i. This is the time in which solon was present and influential. Ancient greece"s great legacy: numbers of citizens in population at athens a. i. 30,000 free male adults citizens out of population of 300,000 a. i. 1. This is a tiny fraction of people that actually had full rights and could actually take advantage and enforce the laws set forth by solon b. Previously things were done randomly, based on the situation b. iii. With this new system, there were set laws and regulations ensuring that every crime between individuals were taken care of fairly b. iv. Put power in the hands of juries exception was murder, where the victims" families were helped with the punishment decisions: direct democracy c. i. Despite its evolutionary ideals, greek democracy was less influential than the roman republic c. ii.
