Athenian Democracy

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Athenian Democracy

• Greek 102

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Timeline
Date Event
594/3 Solons reforms (council of 400)
508/7 Cleisthenes reforms (council of 500)
487 Archons selected by lottery
460s450s Pericles leadership (461429) Areopagus powers reduced (462) Councilors selected by lot Pay for archons, courts, council, assembly Zeugitai archons Pericles citizenship law
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Cleisthenic Reforms(508/7 BCE)
FROM tyranny/oligarchy clan and village 4
tribes archons Council of 400
TO proto-democracy deme and trittys 10
tribes archons strategoi Council of 500
isonomia
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Trittys System
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Tribal System
shore trittys
city trittys
inland trittys
tribe (1 of 10)
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Agora
Acropolis
Pnyx (assembly hill)
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Pnyx
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Terminology

• boule council (of 500)
• steering committee
• 50 per tribe
• election by lot (Pericles)
• assembly agenda
• ostracism
• political timeout
• ekklesia, demos
• popular assembly
• isegoria
• political free speech
• nomos law
• psephisma
• (assembly) decree

• arkhon
• archon (government official)
• nine chief archons
• paid
• lottery election
• strategoi
• board of generals
• military-administrative
• unpaid
• ballot election