CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Pericles, Legal Personality, Alcibiades
12 Oct 2016
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Men, women children, metics (resident alien), freed slaves, slaves. Only male citizens 18+ had active political rights. Athenian male citizens between 18 and 39 would serve in army or felt almost every year. If you (cid:449)e(cid:396)e asked to fight you (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:396)efuse. No taxation in the modern sense: there were financial obligations but those were only for rich people so the average athenian was not required to pay taxes. Attending the ekklesia every 10 days was mandatory. Each year 6000 citizens were drawn to serve as jurors in popular courts. Me(cid:374) of ar(cid:373)s", he said, the(cid:455) had thirtee(cid:374) thousa(cid:374)d besides the si(cid:454)tee(cid:374) thousa(cid:374)d that were employed for the guard of the city and upon the walls. He said, they had of horsemen, accounting archers on horseback, twelve hundred; and sixteen hundred archers. Above shows that the athenian army was quite large and powerful. Probably around 50,000/60,000 citizens at beginning of peloponnesian war.
