Classical Studies 1000 Chapter 4: Pomeroy 71-89

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Bernd Steinbock

Document Summary

All male inhabitants of city"s territory, whether that was capital or countryside included. Synoecism: uniting of several towns or villages into one community. Members typically recruited from the highest magistrates, who entered this council after their terms in office. Magistrates: a civil officer or lay judge who administers the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offenses and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones. Colonizing movement had 2 parts (they both lasted for about a century: second quarter of 8 century, in italy and western mediterranean, (century after the first), concentrated in the north aegean and black sea. Western greeks had rivals - the phoenicians who colonized carthage (now tunisia) and they had been working in same ports and sea lanes as the greeks. Byzantium (founded by megarians c. 660), which 1,000 years later was renames constantinople, became capital of roman empire.