Outline of ancient Greece explained
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to ancient Greece:
Ancient Greece –
Geography of Ancient Greece
Regions of Ancient Greece
Regions of ancient Greece
Government and politics of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek law
Ancient Greek law
- Ancient Greek lawmakers
- Draco – first legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece. He replaced the prevailing system of oral law and blood feud by a written code to be enforced only by a court. Draco's written law became known for its harshness, with the adjective "draconian" referring to similarly unforgiving rules or laws.
- Draconian constitution – first written constitution of Athens. So that no one would be unaware of them, they were posted on wooden tablets (ἄξονες – axones), where they were preserved for almost two centuries, on steles of the shape of three-sided pyramids (κύρβεις – kyrbeis).
- Solon – Athenian statesman and lawmaker, remembered for the Solonian Constitution.
- Solonian Constitution – a code of laws embracing the whole of public and private life. It sought to revise or abolish the older laws of Draco.
- Seisachtheia – a set of laws instituted by the Athenian lawmaker Solon in order to rectify the widespread serfdom and slavery that had run rampant in Athens by the 6th century BC, by debt relief.
- Dreros inscription – the earliest surviving inscribed law from ancient Greece.
- Heliaia, the supreme court of ancient Athens.
- Great Rhetra, the constitution of Sparta
Military history of ancient Greece
Military history of ancient Greece
Military of ancient Greece
Military powers and alliances
Military conflicts
General history of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek history, by period
- Prehistoric Greek history
- History of ancient Greece (timeline)
Ancient Greek history, by region
- Ancient Athens
- Athenian democracy – democracy in the Greek city-state of Athens developed around the fifth century BC, making Athens one of the first known democracies in the world, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. It was a system of direct democracy, in which eligible citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills.
- Solon (c. 638 – c. 558 BC)– Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. Legislated against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy.[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Cleisthenes (born around 570 BC). – father of Athenian democracy. He reformed the constitution of ancient Athens and set it on a democratic footing in 508/7 BC.
- Ephialtes (died 461 BC) – led the democratic revolution against the Athenian aristocracy, which exerted control through the Areopagus, the most powerful body in the state.[5] Ephialtes proposed a reduction of the Areopagus' powers, and the Ecclesia (the Athenian Assembly) adopted Ephialtes' proposal without opposition. This reform signaled the beginning of a new era of "radical democracy" for which Athens would become famous.
- Pericles – arguably the most prominent and influential Greek statesman. When Ephialtes was assassinated for overthrowing the elitist Council of the Aeropagus, his deputy Pericles stepped in. He was elected strategos (one of ten such posts) in 445 BCE, which he held continuously until his death in 429 BCE, always by election of the Athenian Assembly. The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is known as the "Age of Pericles".
- Ostracism – procedure under the Athenian democracy in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.
- Areopagus – council of elders of Athens, similar to the Roman Senate. Like the Senate, its membership was restricted to those who had held high public office, in this case that of Archon.[6] In 594 BC, the Areopagus agreed to hand over its functions to Solon for reform.
- Ecclesia – principal assembly of the democracy of ancient Athens during its "Golden Age" (480–404 BCE). It was the popular assembly, open to all male citizens with 2 years of military service. In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class, even the thetes (manual laborers).
- History of Sparta
- History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)
- History of Crete#Iron Age and Archaic Crete
- Asia Minor#Greek West
- History of Greek and Hellenistic Sicily
- Greeks in pre-Roman Gaul
- History of Marseille#Antiquity
- Cyrenaica#Greek rule
- Bosporan Kingdom
- Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Cyrenaica#Resumption of Greek rule
- Coele-Syria
- Seleucid Empire
- Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Indo-Greek Kingdom
Ancient Greek History, by subject
Works on ancient Greek history
Culture of ancient Greece
Culture of ancient Greece
Architecture of ancient Greece
Architecture of ancient Greece
Art in ancient Greece
Art in ancient Greece
Literature in ancient Greece
Literature in ancient Greece
Philosophy in ancient Greece
Philosophy in ancient Greece
Ancient Greek schools of philosophy
Philosophers of ancient Greece
Language in ancient Greece
Ancient Greek
Religion in ancient Greece
Religion in ancient Greece
Sport in ancient Greece
Sports
Equipment
Stadiums
Training facilities
Economy of ancient Greece
Economy of ancient Greece
Health in ancient Greece
Science of ancient Greece
Technology of ancient Greece
Ancient Greek technology
- Units of measurement in ancient Greece
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Stanton, G.R. Athenian Politics c800–500BC: A Sourcebook, Routledge, London (1990), p. 76.
- Andrews, A. Greek Society (Penguin 1967) 197
- E. Harris, A New Solution to the Riddle of the Seisachtheia, in 'The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece', eds. L. Mitchell and P. Rhodes (Routledge 1997) 103
- Aristotle Politics 1273b 35–1274a 21.
- Fornara-Samons, Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles, 24–25
- Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians, §3.
