Athens
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Transcript of Athens
Athens
Democracy & City Development
Test InformationA’s = 67B’s = 179C’s = 80D’s = 13E’s = 4Average grade = 83
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Map of Greece
What did the city look like?
THE ACROPOLIS
How a hero used poetry . . .
Polis = Athens
Territory = Attica
Aristocratic control
Debt-slavery
I understand the crisis and it fills my heart with pain to see the decline”You who have gained wealth in excess, calm your desire and temper ambition . . .”
Solon the Athenian, 6th C BC
Draco’s written code
Injustice & Tyranny
Noble but poor
“It causes no shame that I saved my country and refused to blemish my honor by embracing tyranny and force; I am set apart from all others by this.”
Who was Draco?Family vs. State
Fixed justice system
New ReformsFather of democracy?
Debt slavery
Hectemorage
Who lived in Athens?Citizens
Slaves
Metics
Xenos
Education Palaistra
Music
Paidotribes
PeisistratusSolon leaves Athens
Peisistratus seized control
Rise of Cleisthenes
5th Century BC Athens is a democracy
But also an aristocracy
Stable government for next two centuries
Who Ruled Athens?Archons
Polemarch
Thesmothetai
Assembly
The EupatridsNobles
Income-Based
Non-Eupatrids
“If one may criticize the people in public, they never would have seen the things I gave them, even in dreams. Men of superior status and power should praise me and call me a friend . . .”
What does it mean to be a Greek?
Democracy
Agriculture
Ships
Laws
Coming Next Week . . .How did the Greeks unite against a common enemy (Persia)?
Would the ancient Athenians have elected Arnold?