Forms of Government - Democracy, Oligarchy and Tyranny
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Background information 10
Forms of Government - Democracy, Oligarchy and Tyranny
Democracy: rule by the people
Most government officials chosen by lottery, did job for 1 year.
From 390 BC, citizens paid for attending assembly.
Most important political posts were the 10 generals: elected by the assembly each year.
Between 30,000 - 40,000 male citizens but possibly only about 5000 attended assembly.
Voting was by a show of hands.
Ostracism (banishment from Athens) involved writing a person's name on an ostraca; person with most votes over 6000 had to leave Athens for 10 years, which destroyed their career.
Oligarchy: rule by the few
Tyranny: rule by one powerful dictator, a tyrant.
(Tyrant: a ruler who has seized power without legal right).
Historical Developments
In Homer we have evidence for monarchy, but probably lasted no later than the 8th century.
By c.700 BC, aristocracies, not monarchies, ruling the earliest poleis.
Commoners challenged this position and power shifted from aristocrats to wider group of landlords.
Oligarchies then replaced aristocracies.
In 6th century particularly, tyrannies appear, including Pisistratus in Athens.
In 508/7, Kleisthenes reforms brought about democracy in Athens: citizenship was based on membership of a deme (village/ward).
In late 460s, Ephialtes and Pericles were behind a reform package passed by assembly that led to the removal of the remaining political powers of the Areopagus, the aristocratic council that had been the supreme court in Athens.
In 411 and 405/4, oligarchies overthrew Athenian democracy: the latter was extreme and brutal and was set up by Sparta.
Under Macedonian rule of Greece, tyrannies by pro-Macedonians were imposed on Athen's allies against Macedon.
After Alexander's death, democracy was overthrown in Athens, but continued in city of Rhodes.
Hellenistic kings and Rome promoted oligarchy and monarchy in Greece.
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