HIST 2850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Medimnos, Panathenaic Games, Politeia

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2850
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Lecture slide, quotation from aristotle on the development of the athenian magistracies/ constitution. The ancient politeia, before drakon, was ordered as follows. The officials were appointed on grounds of birth and wealth, and they held office at first for life and later for a term of ten years. The most important of the offices, as well as the earliest, were those of the king (basileus) and the polemarchos and the archon. The earliest of these was that of the king which was in fact traditional. Then came a second office, that of the polemarchos, introduced because of the military inadquact of some of the kings; this is why they sent for ion when a crisis arose. And last was the office of the archon. According to most accounts it was established during the reign of. Whichever of the two accounts is true, it makes little difference chronologically. (athenian.