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Athenian Politics Flashcards

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While they were under…

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Tyrannical rulers, the Athenians were no better in war than any of their neighbours, yet once they got rid of their tyrants, they were by far the best of all

H. 5.78

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These reforms made the constitution…

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Much more democratic than that of Solon; for it had come about that the tyranny had obliterated the laws of Solon by disuse

Aristotle 21-22

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The first person banished…

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By ostracism Was one of his relatives, Hipparchus […] the desire to banish whom had been Cleisthenes’ principal motive in making the law

Aristotle 21-22

(Hipparchus’ banishment was actually twenty years later…)

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Cleisthenes brought over the people…

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To his side by handing over the control of the state of the common people

Aristotle 20.2

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While Pericles…

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Was champion of the people the constitution was not in too bad a state, but after his death it became much worse

Aristotle 21-22

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The constitution “entails preferring…

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The interests of bad men to those of good men”

O.O

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Slaves and metics…

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Lead the most undisciplined life

O.O

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A person can “spend a year and…

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Still not get business settled by the council or the assembly”

O.O

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The Athenians are “best advised,

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In allowing even the bad to speak”

O.O

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The city would not be capable…

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Of completing all the transactions that everyone wants

[bribery in Athens is useless]

O.O

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In public affairs…

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We do not break the law because it commands are great respect

Thucydides (Pericles FO) 2.37

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Pericles was the first…

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Man to provide payment for jury service.

Aristotle 27.3

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[a number of puppies come out of the house.]

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Come up here, you poor things, and implore and beseech and whimper and weep.

Aristophanes The Wasps

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Bdelycleon to Philocleon

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“Wait till you’ve heard both sides”

Aristophanes The Wasps

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Then the resident aliens…

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Who joined in the incursion [Potidaea] were at least 3000 strong

Thucydides 2.31

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This was not the treatment…

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That we deserved at the city’s hands, when we had produced all our dramas for the festivals, and contributed to many special taxes

Lysias in Against Eratosthenes

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In them…

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We have one of the very best sources of revenue […] they contribute by paying a special tax

Xenophon Poroi 2.1-2.5 (about metics)

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The Megarians […]

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Threw the blame for the Athenian hate on Aspasia and Pericles

Plutarch 30 (references Aristophanes’ Acharnians)

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Effects of the occupation of Decelea:

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“More than 20,000 slaves, the majority of whom were skilled workers, deserted”

Thucydides 7.27

+ Erechtheum description gives accounts of payments made to slaves (exact same amount as made to free people)

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The greatest glory of a woman…

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Is to be least talked about by men, whether they are praising you or criticising you.
Thucydides 2.45

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[In the] law courts they…

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Put their own self-interest before justice

OO

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No one, so long as…

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He has it in him to be of service to the state, is kept in political of security because of poverty.

Thucydides 2.37

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We are free..

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And tolerant in our private lives; but in public affairs we keep to the law.

Thucydides 2.37

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We do not say that a man…

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Who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds is own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

Thucydides 2.40

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Pericles had said that Athens would be victorious if…

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She bided her time and took care of her Navy, if she avoided trying to add to the Empire during the course of the war, and if she did nothing to risk the safety of the city itself.

Thucydides 2.65

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Solon’s reforms

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594 BC

  • Divided the people up into four classes (pentacosiomedimnoi, hippeis, zeugitai and thetes)
  • x9 archons (available to top two classes)
  • council of the Areopagus (available to ex archons)
  • prohibition of debt slavery
  • any citizen could bring a charge on behalf of the state
  • citizens could appeal to the Heliaea against the decision of a magistrate
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Cleisthenes’ reforms

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508/7 BC

  • replaced 4 kinship tribes with 10 new ones
  • 30 instead of 12 trittyes
  • demarchs elected instead of hereditary phratry leaders
  • Boule’s participants were elected/drawn by lot
  • boule could prep the Assembly’s agenda (power for the middle class…)
  • isonomia
  • law of ostracism
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Socrates’ trial date

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399 BC

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Ephialtes’ reforms

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462/1 BC

He removed the Aeropagus’ accreditation’s which gave it guardianship of the constitution; transferred power to council and jury courts
Cimon ostracised in this year
Aristotle says that Themistocles was involved with Ephialtes’ reforms, but this cannot have been since T was exiled in 470BC

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Reforms made to archon elections

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487/6 BC

-appointed (instead of elected) by lot on a tribal basis from a list of 500 members
-500 were elected by deme members
An unelected archon is less powerful, but a strategos is then more powerful

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This is my first…

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Appearance in a court of law, at the age of seventy

Plato’s Apology

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I cannot convince you of this…

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Because we have so little time for discussion

Plato apology

Ancient history, Greece (6 decks)

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