[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: The Council and Magistrates

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The Council and the Magistrates Like selection for military service, allotment to the Council was organized according to the division by tribes; 50 members from each tribe acted as a unit in the Council ... (14, 15). 14. Civic ... ca. 480–460 B.C. The ... property, 414/3 B.C. In addition

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Lawcourts

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Lawcourts Underlying the north end of the Stoa of Attalos are the slight remains of a group of buildings dating to the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. (Fig. 50). Largely open courtyards, they seem to have served ... (Athenaios 14.640b–c) Figure 51 ... centuries B.C. (Fig. 50). Largely ... B.C.) "As Euboulos says in

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: History of the Agora

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History of the Agora The excavations of the Athenian Agora have uncovered about thirty acres on the sloping ground northwest of the Acropolis (Fig. 3). Material of all periods from the Late Neolithic to ... 1st century B.C. Athens ... from 1600 to 1100 B.C. These ... B.C.) and over 80 graves,

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

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Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... Megakles (14.1), may have had a ... Marathon in 490 B.C., the ... ostracized in 486 B.C. Max. dim.: