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1
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What were the 3 governmental structures and powers?

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Boule - executive
Assembly - legislative
Law courts - judicial

2
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The ekklesia

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Males over 20, minimum of 2000 people, 40 meetings in a year

3
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Law courts

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  • all property classes apply
  • any citizen could appeal
  • 201-2500 jurors
  • people pay speech writers
4
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Dikastas/jurors

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  • 6000 citizens over 30
  • chosen by lot
  • 60 from each tribe
  • jury was 200-1000+
5
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Name the key places in the Agora

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-Peisistratus’ palace - evidence of food being cooked there, it was a larger house than most
500, royal stoa, seat of power for the archon and a place of administration
-stone where magistrates swore oaths
-Bouleuterion, 6th century

6
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What is the Attican division?

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Cleisthenes divided Attica into 3 regions and created 10 tribes with people from each region - the eponymous heroes statues is where the notifications for these tribes would be

7
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Where are the most important areas that represent Athenian democracy?

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  • Agora
  • Tholos - Prytaneia sat here and ensured administration was smooth - each tribe had 50 people run it for a 10th of a year
  • Pnyx and Bema - assembly and speaking platform; the assembly was divided into individual trittys
8
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What are the main features within the law courts?

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  • ostracism happened every 10 years using ostracon
  • klepsydra - water clock
  • kleoterian - jurors put Pinsky in and the drop of a ball decided who is on the jury
  • voting disks - hollow=not guilty
9
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Academic arguments

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Camp

  • no evidence of physical law court structure
  • psephos demosia - public ballots
  • state prison near the agora