Athenaion

Athenaion Politeia 3.6 Athenaion Politeia 8.2 The Areopagus comprised former archons and it therefore had, in addition to the power of appointment, extraordinary influence as a consultative body.

Athenaion Politeia 12.4, quoting Solon *prohibition on a debtor's person being used as security for a loan.

Athenaion Politeia 7.1, 55.5 Plutarch Solon 25.3 There was an assembly of Athenian citizens (the Ekklesia ) but the lowest class (the Thetes ) was not admitted and its deliberative procedures were controlled by the nobles.

Athenaion Politeia 7–8 A modern view affords the same privilege to the hippeis.

Athenaion Politeia 9 Plutarch Solon 18.6 *the disenfranchisement of any citizen who might refuse to take up arms in times of civil strife, a measure that was intended to counteract dangerous levels of political apathy.

See P. Rhodes, 1981, Commentary on the Aristotelian "Athenaion Politeia", p. 729. Having been found guilty of corruption and impiety, Socrates and the prosecutor suggested sentences for the punishment of his crimes against the city-state of Athens.

Solon quoted in Athenaion Politeia 12.4 It has been cynically observed, however, that few of these unfortunates were likely to have been recovered.

This same account is substantially taken up about three centuries later by the author of the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia but with an interesting variation: ".