Cleisthenes Flashcards
(38 cards)
- Impacts
Democracy big part of Athenian identity, What happens to people after ostracism kept property and money but couldn’t live in Athenians for a year, changing tribes did It affect people, did some people have more benefits than others –> middle class could do democratic things compared with power people, Did it ignore some groups of people, Did it make it fairer or more unfair Better or worse, Make judgement decisions, Shows the insight but saying who does better etc e.g shaking of burden loses rich money
- Past: Arstiole on tryanny of Hippas
the tyranny was much harsher
- Past: Who and when did the tryant take over Athens?
Peisistratus in 564BC
- Past: Who vied for power with Clesithense
Isagoras
- Random: When was Cleisthnese elected
508 BC
- Tribe: First step/threes
reorganising the demes into three groups or trittys via geography e.g the coastal (paralia), inland (mesogeian) and city (astu).
- Tribe: Ten tribes were called and subdivided from
trittys were then subdivided into ten tribes (Phylia)
- Arstiloe quote on tribes
he first divided the whole body into ten tribes[…] in order that more might take part in the government
- Tribe: tribes named after.e.g
Cecrops an Athenian hero
- Tribe: Tribes were given
a preist, a shrine in the agora, and were to hold meetings, have officials, provide money for tribal treasury and had tribal property
- Tribe: Limites on what and why
To ensure that there was equality among the tribes and one did not overpower the others there was a limite of how many men each tribe must supply for the army and boule.
- Past: Peisistratus sons names?
Hipparchus and Hippias
- Constitutional: how many men from each tribe to boule
50
- Constitutional: Citizenship
Citizenship was also moved to Demes, in which a males at the age of eighteen had to apply for citizenship. The male would be questioned by a panel and to be accepted there would be a vote taken by those who judged him. If the applicant was rejected they had the right to appeal the verdict, though the decision in the appeal was final.
- Constitutional: citizenship policing called
dokimasia
- Constitutional: Punishment for enrolling an underage man in citizenship
The demesman who had enrolled the male would be fined if found guilty and the applicant was found to be underage. The tribal reforms of Cleisthenes were to make politics more individual and forced constitutional reforms to be put in place.
- Prevention: Boule
To stop another tyrant who were selected for the boule could only serve twice, with terms being a year each. The citizen males who were selected for the boule had to be over thirty as well.
- Govt: Law courts called and jurors
dikasteria, jurors (Dikasts)
19: Govt: What law courts did/were
Cleisthenes also created dikasteria, these were smaller courts in which jurors (Dikasts) were drawn annually from each tribe and dealt with smaller cases.
- Govt: Months name, named after and how long
36 day months (prytanies) which were named after each of the tribes.
- Govt: Why and how about months
To allow more participation in the government the year was also divided into 36 day months (prytanies) which were named after each of the tribes. During the tribe’s prytany, they selected a member of their tribe to act as president/pryraneis.
- Prevention: Astriole quote about tryanny and laws
the tyranny had obliterated the laws of Solon by disuse, and Cleisthenes aiming at the multitude had instituted other new ones, including the enactment of the law about ostracism
- Prevention: Ostracism votes
To ostracize someone it was required to write on a pottery as seen in the image below (1) and needed 6,000 votes (though it is divided between historians over 6,000 votes for the person to leave or for 6,000 votes to be cast).
- Prevention: What happened after ostracised:
leave for 10 years, kept property