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Kleisthenes and Aigeis

Kleisthenes and Aigeis KLEISTHENES AND AIGEIS BY WESLEY E. THOMPSON Before we can assess the work of Kleisthenes we must first learn which demes constituted each of the thirty trittyes. Normally the geographical position of a deme will tell us whether it belonged to the city, coastal, or inland trittys of its tribe, but sometimes we must turn to inscriptions, such as prytany lists, which group demes according to trittyes. This is true of the smaller demes which have not yet been securely located by the topographers and of those tribes in which the demes of two trittyes lie so closely together that only an official document can show to which they belong. This is the situation of Aigeis, where several of the inland and coastal demes are neighbors. To fix the exact membership of each trittys in this tribe we must rely on fourth century inscriptions, prytany lists and a roster of bouleutai published in Hesperia several years ago (S. E. G. 19, 149) 1). These inscriptions fall into three categories. In the first there is no discrepancy between the arrangement of demes in the inscrip- tions and their geographical locations (as far as they are known): coastal demes form http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Kleisthenes and Aigeis

Thompson, Wesley E.
Mnemosyne , Volume 22 (2): 137 – Jan 1, 1969
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© 1969 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0026-7074
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10.1163/156852569X00634
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KLEISTHENES AND AIGEIS BY WESLEY E. THOMPSON Before we can assess the work of Kleisthenes we must first learn which demes constituted each of the thirty trittyes. Normally the geographical position of a deme will tell us whether it belonged to the city, coastal, or inland trittys of its tribe, but sometimes we must turn to inscriptions, such as prytany lists, which group demes according to trittyes. This is true of the smaller demes which have not yet been securely located by the topographers and of those tribes in which the demes of two trittyes lie so closely together that only an official document can show to which they belong. This is the situation of Aigeis, where several of the inland and coastal demes are neighbors. To fix the exact membership of each trittys in this tribe we must rely on fourth century inscriptions, prytany lists and a roster of bouleutai published in Hesperia several years ago (S. E. G. 19, 149) 1). These inscriptions fall into three categories. In the first there is no discrepancy between the arrangement of demes in the inscrip- tions and their geographical locations (as far as they are known): coastal demes form

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Published: Jan 1, 1969

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