CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heliaia, Harmodius And Aristogeiton, Debt Bondage
31 Jan 2018
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Athens emerges from the dark ages and is control of attica. Athens has quite a large territory abundance of fertile land, high elevation. Natural harbours (ideal for shipping and trade: unification of attica: Or: gradual syneocism (villages coming into one) of attica (under leadership of athens. Aristocratic, republican" annual election of a body of magistrates. Archons (rulers) remember dreros inscription vis-a-via komos. 9 annually elected magistrates eligibility was restricted to members of eupatridai: e. g: polemarch (war general), eponymous archon (presided over council, assembly), eupatridai (those of good fathers, the well born, nobility) Areopagus council of the areipagus, elder aristocrats composed of former archons, deliberative body; high court of early athens. Oikos (household) nuclear family + any salves; headed by adult male (kyrios) Phyle (tribe) every family of citizens belongs to one of four phylai. Tyrants almost always supported by the large masses, however, other members of the elite don"t like them as they centralize power.
