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Democracy
ostracism
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an ostracised citizen was exiled for 10 years but still kept his property and income. When he returned he had full citizenship again
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there are 200 Ostraka with the name Themistocles but only fourteen styles of handwriting, suggesting the system was prone to corruption and political alliances
later in the period, ostracism didnt just expel people associated with tyrants, but was used to eradicate political opponents
Cleisthenes' reforms
Cleisthenes decided to divide Attica into 3 regions: coast, city and inland, and each region was then further divided into ten sections each, called a trittys
citizens now referred to themselves by deme rather than the name of their father reducing the importance of familial connections
Cleisthenes expanded the council created by Solon from 400 to 500 members, and each of the new ten tribes had to provided 50 citizens for the boule
in 462/1 Ephialtes introduced a major reform of the Council of the Areoapagus in order to make Athens more democratic. His reform deprived the areopagus of all its duties except for jurisdiction over murder and certain offences against the gods. So until 462 the aristocracy still had political power
archeology
old bouleterion
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it is almost square, and facade is doric
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placed on the road which led to the Pnyx, which united it with the Boule and Ekklesia.
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agora
closure of private wells in the area of the Classical new agora suggests a move towards public, civic use of the space
i attribute the south east fountain house to the years following cleisthenes' reforms, suggests a civic building with intent to improve quality of life for civilians
material culture
the tyrannicides
statue of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who had murdered the brother of the current tyrant, Hippias. For this, Hippias had them executed
later, Harmodius and Aristogeiton became sort of heroes for 'standing up against tyranny', although they had killed the man for personal reasons concerning a love affair
when tyranny was expelled and democracy introduced, the tyrannicide sculptures became symbolic of democracy and commemorated the eradication of tyranny
In 480, the Persian king Xerxes captured Athens, and took away the statue, which was put on display in one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire, Susa. The athenians ordered a copy to be made