POLS 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Demagogue, Thrasymachus, Sortition
6 Oct 2020
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Shifting loyalties: masses shifted their allegiance from their local lords or patrons to pisistratus who becomes their personal champion. The masses (gr. demos) become one political body, athens," as a single unit, united under pisistratus as their popular leader" [=gr. Pisistratus dies; his sons ( the pisistratids") are killed by the. Without pisistratid leadership, the masses [the demos] have no leader and need a new champion, someone to replace pisistratus. The masses need a new leader, and they found that leadership in. Cleisthenes, who tried to win popular loyalties by making promises for more reforms. Regarded as the father of classic athenian democracy. Recognition of a new kind of power asserted by the masses: they called mass-power" or demokratia [from gr. demos= the masses". Chief institutions and practices of athenian democracy. All citizens are automatically entitled to membership of the ekklesia. Any citizen can attend, speak, vote, propose measures. Membership of council drawn from ekklesia by lottery.
