HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: International Brotherhood Of Teamsters, Hippeis, Heliaia
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6 obols (ob) = 1 drachma (dr) 100 (70) dr = 1 mina (mn) People owe less if less silver per drachma. Doesn"t benefit debtors, but brings them more in line with other city states. Teamsters = someone who drives a team of oxen. Bottom three classes have occupational name, top class has numerical name. Solon makes political office contingent upon income class. Only top two classes are available for archonship. Treasurer of athena must come from top class. Thetes can only attend and vote in assembly and athenian juries. Latest possible time that every adult athenian male can attend and vote in the assembly. Hypothetically 100 men from each of the classes. Never mentioned anywhere other than by the ath pol and by plutarch after having read the ath pol. Cleisthenes of athens creates real council of 500, taking 50 from his 10 tribes. After cleisthenes, people assumed he had solonian precedence.
