eupatridai - landowning aristocrats, zeugitai - third economic class, seisachtheia - the 'shaking off of burdens', kyrbeis - rotating panels to display Solon's laws, pentakosiomedimnoi - top economic class, eponymous archon - responsible for civil matters, Council of the Areopagus - group of ex-archons, archon - high level Athenian magistrate, archon basileus - responsible for religious matters, polemarch - in charge of the army, thesmothetai - responsible for legal matters, polis - the city-state, tyrant - a sole ruler, taken power unconstitutionally, hektemeroi - farmers who paid tax to landowners, hippeis - second economic class, thetes - fourth (lowest) economic class, medimnos - a unit of agricultural product, agora - marketplace, town square, civic hub, heliaia - people's court introduced by Solon, assembly - political arena open to all citizens, council - prepared motions for and helped the assembly, tribes - originally four of these in Athens, later ten., deme - a district acting as a political constituency of polis, demarch - leader of a deme, trittyes - the thirty zones of Attica, each one a third of a tribe, phratry - 'brotherhood' - a subdivision of old tribes, ostracism - vote to banish an individual from the polis, sortition - the act of selecting by lot, strategos - an Athenian general, isonomia - equality in law,

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