CLST 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Demagogue, Stater, Pnyx
12 Jan 2016
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The powers of the people were crucially extended by him at the beginning of the 6th century. He is credited as the father of democracy. There were power struggles between groups of elite families and. Peisitratos"s political coup whichrevealed the weakness in power of the people. He reorganized the citizenry into new administrative unit called. Each tribe was made of a number of demoi, located in different areas of the athenian territory. The work demokratia seems to have not been invented until more than a generation after his reforms. Earliest shadow of the term democracy comes in aiskhylos phylai phrase. Isonomia = equal rights of all citizens to exercise their political rights (equality under the law) o o. These terms are are used by herodotos to describe klesisthenes" Demokratia = power of the people, the whole citizenry without. Nowadays, the people in democracy are those who are 18+ and the government is casting a vote in an election.
