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- In Classical Athens, between 480 and 323 B.C., nine concurrent archons were in place. The council of archons performed the same functions as an executive government; all the state affairs that were once the king’s duties. The people chosen to be archons originally were to serve for life.
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The archon was the chief magistrate in many Greek cities, but in Athens there was a council of archons which exerted a form of executive government. From the late 8th century BC there were three archons: the archon eponymos , the polemarchos (originally with a military role, which was transferred to the ten strategoi in 501 BC), and the archon ...
Such was Solon's legislation with respect to the nine Archons; whereas in early times the Council of Areopagus summoned suitable persons according to its own judgement and appointed them for the year to the several offices. There were four tribes, as before, and four tribe-kings.
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In Classical Athens, between 480 and 323 B.C., nine concurrent archons were in place. The council of archons performed the same functions as an executive government; all the state affairs that were once the king’s duties. The people chosen to be archons originally were to serve for life. Eventually, they served terms that lasted ten years, which we...
Three primary archons presided over state military, civic, and religious affairs. The archons in charge were the Eponymous Archon, who handled civic responsibilities, the Polemarch, the head of the military, and the Archon Basileus. The Basileus dealt with the religious realm and was in charge of all sacred rites and ceremonial functions. The Panat...
The Polemarch was the Greek army commander and the judge in judicial matters that involved foreigners in Greece. The title was given to the military’s chief officer, presumably to take over the king’s duty. The Archon Basileus was the primary religious officer who was in charge of judicial cases involving homicides. He was one of the few remaining ...
have served in a military capacity as the cavalry, a service which required wealth and continued, even under the later democracy, to have aristocratic overtones. Zeugitai Eligible to be a member of the Boule. This class may have been roughly equivalent to the hoplite soldiery. Thetes Eligible to vote in the Ekklesia.
archons who entered the after their archontal year. rule (nowhere attested, and sortition, and later double-sortition, However, young or middle-aged have saddled an aspiring or two difficult and perhaps. (a)(a) What path shall I follow. religious and judicial (Basileus), feel, not 'at home' in an.
The Athenian Archon list can be divided into three periods: (1) from the institution of the annual archonship down to 481/0—a period for which the evidence available for restoration of the list is slight; the names of some sixty-five archons out of the total for the period of about 200 are known to us, and the dates of many of them are uncertain; (2) from 480/79 to 302/1, a period for which ...
Athens 7 th c. (699-600 BCE or BC) 9 Archons in Council of Areopagus made laws. An archon, Pomeroy argues, was a transformation of archaic "basilieus," or chieftain.Plural "basileis" (pp. 43-44,50, 73, 126) 621 BCE Draco organized laws on stone. Severe “Draconian” punishment. Ecclesia (or spelled Ekklesia). Athens 6 th c. (599-500 BCE)
