630 – c. 560 BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate 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.

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• Draco. *Greek reformer who wrote a harch law code.
• codifies. to reduce to a code * important because Draco codifies the laws in Athens and so he makes the law official and writes everything down.
• Draconian.
• Solon.
• Pisistratus.
• Cleisthenes.
• Tyrant.
• Boule.

Cleisthenes successfully allied himself with the popular Assembly against the nobles (508) and imposed democratic reform. Perhaps his most important innovation was the basing of individual political responsibility on citizenship of a place rather than on membership in a clan.

Solon further strengthened the Athenian economy by encouraging the growth of Attica’s trade and industry. He forbade the export of produce other than olive oil, minted new Athenian coinage on a more universal standard, reformed the standard of weights and measures, and granted immigrant craftsmen citizenship.

Under Solon’s reforms, all debts were abolished and all debt-slaves were freed. The status of the hectemoroi (the “one-sixth workers”), who farmed in an early form of serfdom, was also abolished. These reforms were known as the Seisachtheia.

B.C) DRACO– Athenians entrusted Thesmothet Draco in 621 BC to write laws. Dracon was the oldest legislator of Athens.

Born an aristocratic himself, he did not believe the people should actually rule, only that they ought to be consulted in a popular assembly. As a result he created a Council of Four Hundred to represent the ordinary citizens, and initiated reforms in many other areas of law, such as debt relief and taxes.

Solon implemented a new class system that allowed social mobility, and also gave each class a role within the democracy. He began to develop the concept of individual rights, while instituting legislation to protect those rights for all people.

Alexander the Great’s legacy is both far reaching and profound. First, his father was able to unite the Greek city-states, and Alexander destroyed the Persian Empire forever. More importantly, Alexander’s conquests spread Greek culture, also known as Hellenism, across his empire.

A kleroterion was used to ensure absolute randomness in the allocation of particularly important civic positions, in particular the allocation of men to juries that sat in the many Athenian court rooms. The machine is simple to operate. The kleroterion is thus a remarkable testament to a remarkable civilization.

The ekklesia of ancient Athens is particularly well-known. In 594 BC, Solon allowed all Athenian citizens to participate, regardless of class. The assembly was responsible for declaring war, military strategy and electing the strategoi and other officials.

A kleroterion (Ancient Greek: κληρωτήριον) was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis during the period of democracy to select citizens to the boule, to most state offices, to the nomothetai, and to court juries. The kleroterion was a slab of stone incised with rows of slots and with an attached tube.

He would be given the keys to the Prytaneion. The interesting thing is that if one won the lottery and served on the Boule, one was in charge of receiving foreign ambassadors, and undertaking the day-to-day affairs of the state such as leasing of temple lands and controlling the public till.

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You can legally give your children £100,000 no problem. If you have not used up your £3,000 annual gift allowance, then technically £3,000 is immediately outside of your estate for inheritance tax purposes and £97,000 becomes what is known as a PET (a potentially exempt transfer).

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