Blog Post #21 -Ancient Greec (Powerpoint Part 3)

     Today in class we took notes on the powerpoint for the whole time. Here are my notes:

• During the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, aristocrats ran most of Greece

• aristocrats: members of the ruling class

- they attended symposiums, meetings where the elite men would enjoy win and poetry, performances by dancers and acrobats, and the company of "hetaeras" (courtesans) while discussing politics
- no women were allowed except the "entertainment"
- no middle class or slaves, and sometimes even certain aristocrats were left out

• sometimes aristocrats would form alliances with hoplites (well-armed soldiers), and formed alternative form of government called tyranny 

DRACO (621 BCE)

- all athenians, rich or poor, are equal under the law

- but death the punishment for many crimes

- debt slavery is OK (work as slave to reply debt)

- Draconian~ unnecessarily harsh

SOLON'S REFORM (around 500 BCE)

- allowed all citizens to submit laws for debate at the assembly

- created the Council of Five Thousand (members chosen at random, to counsel the assembly)

- but... only free adult mall property owners were considered citizens 

- women slaves were called "foreigners"