4th Century Political Changes

Question 1

Decarchy

Answer 1

• 10 pro-Spartan individuals who ruled Athens after the Peloponnesian wars
• Meant to ensure the new oligarchy’s stability
• Ensure loyalty to Sparta from Athens government

Question 2

Thirty Tyrants

Answer 2

• Lasted 8 months
• Sentenced many to death over money and power
• Defeated by democratic exiles and Thebes
• Even Spartan kings approved their downfall

Question 3

Second Athenian League

Answer 3

• Recreation of the Delian league but with more freedoms for participating states
• No tributes
• All states independent and free to join or leave
• Athenian Ekklesia and Synedrion of the Assembly of Allies held equal weight

Question 4

Dikasteria

Answer 4

• People’s court
• More relevant than the Ekklesia
• 201-501 jurors for normal cases

Question 5

Dikasteria Trials

Answer 5

• No precedents for decision making
• Trials were one day long
• No appeal
• Each individual had to make and present their own case
• Death penalty was common

Question 6

Courts for Murder Trials

Answer 6

• Each different kind of murder had its own court
• Areopagus
• Palladion
• Delphinion
• Prytaneion