A source-book of ancient history - The Search For Mecca

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Athens
2. What were the chief features of the timocracy? Compare it in
detail with the preceding aristocracy.
3. What brought Solon into prominence? What conditions are
described by his poem? How do his poems compare as sources with
Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians? Where did Aristotle probably
get his knowledge of Solon? What debts did he abolish? How
were his laws to be preserved? What was now to be the place of the
Council of the Areopagus? What features of Solon's government
were new and what were continued from earlier time? Why did
Solon go abroad? What does he say of his own achievements?
4. How did Peisistratus make himself tyrant? Narrate his exiles
and returns. How did he finally establish his power? What was the
character of his rule? From the story of the tax-free farm what do we
learn as to the condition of the poorest farmers?
Describe the character
of Peisistratus. Compare the rule of his sons. What led to the
overthrow of the tyranny? What part in the event was taken by
Cleisthenes?
5. What were the aims of Cleisthenes and Isagoras? Does the
former seem to have been at heart a democrat? What arrangement
of demes and tribes did he make, and with what objects? Compare
his form of government with that established by Solon. Which
deserves the greater credit as a reformer?