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508 BC: The Democratic Reforms of Cleisthenes
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 12, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
ten, education, shard, logistical, tyranny, Golden, Megacles, scrutinized, limit, cross, democratic, citizen, 6000, property, wholesale, trittyes, juries, Delphi, free, clans, tenth, hero, revolution, 200, speech, neighborhood, individual, geographical, equal, Pericles, Solon, pivotal, eponymous, war, three, Alcmaeonidae, Western
Cleisthenes
508 BC: set Athens on footing
came from the [alk-MEE-an-id-igh] clan
was originally mistrusted because of impiety and sacrilege committed by
632 BC: Megacles was the archon was convicted of killing Cylon's supporters and was exiled from the city
story of revolution of Athens
shows how controversial this family was
Herodotus tells us
Alcmaeonids has furnished a new temple at
had bribed the priestess there
anytime a Spartan came, the priestess should say " Athens"
this worked for Cleomenes [klee-OM-ah-neez]
first supported Isogarus
undertook a reconstruction of the Athenian constitution
divides Attica
city
coast
inland
each of the three areas were divided into ten
each trittys was made up of one or more demes
the heart of the system
the demes were the preexisting neighborhoods
in the city a deme might be a block or a
in a country a deme was more of an area
ten new tribes (phylai) were created
each consisting of trittyes, one in each area
each one named after a
this obliterated the local power of the old
Athens was redefined on a basis
no longer the classes that Solon had set up
each tribe should represent a section of the population
each roughly in size
deme
most important in the life of the
deme identity was what made you a citizen
when males turned 18, an adult recommended you, you were , then inducted and became citizen
your deme name became part of your name
had meetings
phyle
official identifications
officers, treasury
comprised the new council
there was a shadowy council of 400 that had created
boule
tribes made up the new boule
500 citizens
50 selected by lot every year from each tribe
served as a new center
frame legislation
debated and voted on by the assembly
"it seemed good to the people"
send out ambassadors
final power to declare stayed with the assembly
an important new democratic invention
a group of 500 was a bit big to connect business
ten units of year
one tribe would serve for a of the year
all of this was a mechanism which draws all citizens into governing their own state
a massive undertaking
must have required some kind of
deme identification was passed from father to son
even if you moved
assembly
included all citizens
guaranteed freedom of
to persuade, you had to speed publicly and well
magistrates
9 archons
10 Strategoi (generals)
important
archons served for just one year, then examination
generals could be reelected without
was never an archon but was a general over and over
great speaker
during the Greek Age (5th century BC Greece), Athenian military and external affairs were mostly entrusted to the ten strategoi who were elected each year by the ten tribes of citizens
popular courts
citizens to hear cases
ostracism
introduced by Cleisthenes
an official process
needed to have a quorum of
each had a pot
each wrote a name on it
the citizen that got the most votes had to leave Athens for years
clearly meant to deter
according to Aristotle, one of the most democratic parts of Cleisthenes reforms
these reforms much has required a large amount of preparation
we have almost no evidence as to how it was conducted
was a moment in history
usually today we speak of more gradually changes in history
but the Athenian and the Cleisthenic reforms
this was new and massive change
in society and politics
laid the foundation for democracy which has been emulated in culture
lasted in this polis for at least years
Vocabulary:
trittys, n. [TRIT-is] a population division in ancient Attica, established by the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC, the name means thirtieth and there were in fact thirty trittyes in Attica ⇒ "Each tribe, or phyle of Athens was composed of three trittyes, one from the coast, one from the city, and one from the inland area. Trittyes were composed of one or more demes; demes were the basic unit of division in Attica." |
deme, n. [deem] a suburb of Athens or a subdivision of Attica, the region of Greece surrounding Athens, enrollment in the citizen-lists of a deme became the requirement for citizenship ⇒ "Males 18 years of age were registered in their local demes, thereby acquiring civic status and rights." |
phyle, n. [FIGHL] an ancient Greek term for clan or tribe, usually ruled by a basileus ⇒ "A large citizens' organization based on kinship, constituting the largest political subdivision of an ancient Greek city-state." |
Spelling Corrections:
Herodatus ⇒ Herodotus
impeity ⇒ impiety
Flashcards:
Cleisthenes was from what clan?
Alcmaeonidae [alk-MEE-an-id-igh] or the Alcmaeonids [alk-MEE-an-ids]
pr. Mycenae
[migh-SEE-nee]
pr. Thermopylae
[ther-MOP-ah-lee]