CLAS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Great Rhetra, Peloponnese, Kyrios
2 Dec 2012
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Based on your status/blood, determines how much power you have in the state (eupatrid, etc. ) When currency is first introduced, it upsets the balance of things. People that were poor see that they might be able to do well for themselves. Solon gets rid of the old categories (based on status) and makes new categories based on wealth. He determines what rank you belong to (goes to your farm/business and determines what financial category you belong to) A term of 10 years has to pass before you run again (each year it changes); this prevents people from having too much power (prevents corrupt government) Axonas = spinning wheel in which new law codes were placed. Ignorance of the law would now be no excuse. As soon as solon goes to jail, the people of the hill (poor), the coast (middle-class), and the plain (rich) have conflict/begin to fight. Athens is on the verge of stasis (civil war)
