CLST 102 Chapter 6-7.5: Greek Civil. Notes

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 102
• Professor: Fabio Colivicchi

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Government of the people, by the people, for the people. The ppl did this by attending meetings or assembly = ekklesia. Athens moved from rule by a basically self-appointed elite to rule by the ppl. Powers of the ppl were crucially extended by solon at beginning of 6th c. Power struggles btw groups of elite families and peisist(cid:396)atos(cid:859) political coup made the weakness of the ppl more apparent than their power. At end of 6th c. after peisistatos(cid:859) son hippias was thrown out and. Kleisthenes had carried out his reform, the real origins of democracy emerged familiar from the 5th- 4th c. The word demokratia = democracy did not appear in the greek language until 463 in aiskh(cid:455)los(cid:859) phrase (cid:862)de(cid:373)ou k(cid:396)atousa khei(cid:396)(cid:863) = (cid:862)the so(cid:448)e(cid:396)eig(cid:374) ha(cid:374)d of the de(cid:373)os(cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h occurs in his suppliants of 463c. Later herodotos describes kleisthenes(cid:859) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374) as isegoria = equal rights to speak and isonomia = (cid:862)e(cid:395)ualit(cid:455) u(cid:374)de(cid:396) the la(cid:449)(cid:863)