The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, Frederic G. Kenyon
By Aristotle, Frederic G. Kenyon
Most likely written via a pupil of Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution is either a background and an research of Athens' political equipment among the 7th and fourth centuries BC, which stands as a version of democracy at a time while city-states lived lower than different types of presidency. the author recounts the main reforms of Solon, the rule of thumb of the tyrant Pisistratus and his sons, the emergence of the democracy during which strength was once shared through all loose male voters, and the management of Pericles and the demagogues who him. He is going directly to learn the city's management in his personal time - the council, the officers and the judicial procedure. For its details on Athens' improvement and the way the democracy labored, The Athenian Constitution is a useful resource of data concerning the Athenian city-state.
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1 with note); but on the state of Athens before his reforms it is unlikely that much direct evidence survived, though on some matters inferences could be drawn from his laws. We may accept that many peasants were dependent on an overlord, cultivating their land on condition that they surrendered a proportion of the produce to him, and that they and others were liable to be enslaved if they fell inextricably into debt; and that political power was exercised by the Well-born, who were for the most part the richest citizens, through the nine archonships and the council of the Areopagus.
The second part is more strikingly original: as far as we know, a factual account of how the constitution of a Greek city state worked had never been attempted by anyone until Aristotle’s school started collecting constitutions; and our author, who for his history read many books but did not engage in original research, based his analysis on the actual laws which governed the working of the constitution. We do not know who he was; we cannot compare his work with the other 157 constitutions; but he has left us a book of great interest and importance.
Of the actual history little can be said. 2), and is probably a product of later theorizing. The principal officers of state were the nine archons, appointed annually from the ranks of the Well-born; three had individual titles and were senior to the other six (see chapter 3), and the fact that one of these was called basileus, ‘king’, suggests that earlier there had been a hereditary king; it may be true that the one styled archon had been appointed annually since 683/2. The council of the Areopagus had come to consist of former holders of the nine archonships.