- All Athenians equal under the law
- Death = punishment for crimes
- Debt slavery (work as slave for debt) is ok
Solon (594 BCE)
- Outlaws debt slavery
- All athenian citizens can speak at an assembly
- Any citizen can press charges
Clesthenes (500 BCE)
- Allowed citizen to submit laws
- Created council of 500- chosen at random
- Only free adult male land owners born in Athens were citizens
CLASH OF TYRANTS
- Hippias was a tyrant who ruled rule 527 BCE to 520 BCE
- His brother was murdered, and his rule became harsh
- Eventually he was expelled from Athens (ostracized)
- In revenge, he began working with the Persian king Darius I, helping them invade marathon
- When Hippias was gone, Isagoras and Clesthenes (aristocrats- both) engaged in a power struggle
- Isagoras had support from some fellow aristocrats from some fellow aristocrats, plus from Sparta (rich)
- Cleisthenes had support of the majority of Athens
- Isagoras becomes archon eponymous- tyrant
- He ostracizes Cleisthenes
- Cleisthenes supporters revolt
- They trap Isagoras on the acropolis for 2 days- on the third day he fled and banished
- Occurred in 508 BCE
- Cleisthenes- member of elite- very rich
- Insulated from the Hoi Polloi
- Saw the value of tapping into the talents, intelligence of the non-aristocrats (middle class)
- Too bad he didn't realize the value of women
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