The Works Of Demosthenes Tr With Notes By C R Kennedy

The works of Demosthenes, tr., with notes by C.R. Kennedy

The Works of Demosthenes, Tr , with Notes by C R Kennedy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX I. TRIBES AND TOWNSHIPS. Of the more ancient divisions of Attica, and of the four tribi which existed before the innovations of Clisthenes, it is not my intei tion to give an account here. I shall content myself with referr to my epitome of the subject under title Tribus in the Archseologi Dictionary, and to the authorities there indicated. Let the read) only bear in mind, that each tribe was divided into three tjptn fraternities, or clans, (as I have translated it, ) analogous in their tical relations to the Roman Curia; and each clan into thirty yo or families, in the larger sense of the term family, corresponding the Roman Gens. Each family was distinguished by a name of patronymic form, derived from some hero or mythic ancestor, as Bu- molpidse; though in process of time, as might be expected, these divisions did not necessarily import family connexion. The members of the clans and families had their respective religious rites and festi- vals, which were preserved long after the communities had lost their political importance. Before the time of Solon there was a gradation of ranks, said to: have been established by Theseus; the Eupatridte, or Nobles; the ' Geomori, or Agriculturists; and the Demiurgi, or Artisans. Solon -i abolished these distinctions, and introduced his property qualification, of which I have spoken elsewhere. (See Volume I. Appendix IV.)1 He however made no change in the constitution of the ancient tribes; which were thought to keep up artificial distinctions, not agi with that fusion of all ranks, which it was the object of a later ration to accomplish; and accordingly, after the expulsion of the sons of Pisistratus, the four old tribes were abolished, and the whole state j reorganised. Chsthenes, the leader of this democratic re...

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