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Travel My Hometown In L. Travel The last artists crafting a Thai royal treasure. Subscriber Exclusive Content. Why are people so dang obsessed with Mars? How viruses shape our world. The era of greyhound racing in the U. Solon changed method by which Athenians became archons —forty candidates were elected, and from these forty, nine archons were picked by lot Aristot.
Aristotle describes the government of Athens under Solon as a blend of elements—the courts were democratic, the elected archons were aristocratic, and the Court of the Areopagus was oligarchic Aristot.
Plot on a Map Salamis. The Court of the Areopagus seems to have enjoyed a return to its former glory immediately after the Persian Wars. He goes on to say that the Council of the Areopagus enjoyed preeminence in Athens for almost two decades, until the time when Conon was archon , and Ephialtes brought about his reforms in BCE Aristot.
Diodorus Diod. Plot on a Map Sparta. The ancient sources are not consistent regarding who was responsible for the reform of the Areopagus. Plutarch also gives credit to Pericles Plut.
According to Plutarch , then, Pericles may have been an important influence behind the events, but it was Ephialtes who actually brought about the reforms see also Aristot. Themistocles was a leading advocate of democratic reforms, and Ephialtes seems to have been his successor in this role, after Themistocles was ostracized in BCE Plut. Plot on a Map Chersonese. By BCE , while the Persians had been mostly driven from the Aegean sea, they remained in the Chersonese , a peninsula in the northern Aegean , and allied themselves with some of the people of Thrace ; the Athenians dispatched Cimon to wage war against them Plut.
Cimon won a victory in Thrace , which would have allowed him, had he wished to, to invade Macedonia. When he failed to do this, he was brought to trial in Athens , accused of accepting bribes to leave Macedonia alone; one of the prosecutors at his trial was Pericles Plut. Cimon spoke well in his own defense Plut. Thucydides Thuc. Plot on a Map Persia. According to Aristotle , Themistocles encouraged Ephialtes to limit the powers of the Court of the Areopagus in order to forestall his own prosecution Aristot.
This directly contradicts all other sources, who make it clear that Themistocles was not, in fact, in Athens at the time of his trial Thuc. Cause and effect in history, ancient or modern, are difficult to establish, but we can say this: when Ephialtes enacted his reforms that limited the powers of the Court of the Areopagus , thus making Athens more democratic Aristot.
Plot on a Map Peloponnese. In the year , Cimon led an Athenian army to the Peloponnese to help Sparta put down a rebellion, a mission that Ephialtes had opposed Plut. Ephialtes seems to have taken advantage of his absence to enact democratic reforms, especially a reform in the powers and authority of the Court of the Areopagus Plut.
So the reform was not, finally, the work of Ephialtes alone, but an act of legislation by two of the more democratic institutions in Athens. Since , the English Wikipedia page of Ephialtes of Trachis has received more than 1,, page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Ephialtes of Trachis is the 1,th most popular politician down from 1,th in , the nd most popular biography from Greece down from 96th in and the 40th most popular Greek Politician.
Ephialtes of Trachis is most famous for betraying the Greeks to the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae. Among politicians, Ephialtes of Trachis ranks 1, out of 15,
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