ANTH 2100 Chapter Notes -Bacchiadae, Pheidon Ii, Periander
Document Summary
Sources: herodotus 5. 70-72 (on cylon); 1. 59-64; 5. 55ff. (on peisistratus; use index for other tyrants); Thucydides 6. 53-60; [aristotle] constitution of athens 1-15; plutarch, life of solon. Reasons for the rise of tyrants: reaction to the growth of city-states; development of hoplite armies of land-owning citizen soldiers. Bacchiadae; earliest tyrant dynasty: the cypselids, see hdt. 5. 71), later banished): samos: polycrates (c. 535-522; made samos a great naval power; attacked by the spartans, but eventually killed by persians); see hdt. Solon: the areopagus (council of ex-archons or chief magistrates) appointed an aristocrat named. Solon as archon and diallaktes (conciliator) for 594; he addressed the economic problems first with his seisachtheia ( shaking-off of burdens", or wiping the slate clean"); next organised citizens into 4 property classes: pentacosiomedimnoi; hippeis; zeugetai; thetes. There was increased political & social stability; the tyrants did not dismantle solon"s constitution.
