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CONTENTS

Introductory.

Explanation Of Terms For The English Reader.

The Constitution Of Athens.

Chap. I.: Kylon.

Chap. II.: The oligarchical constitution.

Chap. III.: Before Draco’s time.

Chap. IV.: Draco’s laws.

Chap. V.: Civil dissensions; Solon.

Chap. VI.: Solon; charge against him.

Chap. VII.: His constitution.

Chap. VIII.: Solon’s constitution.

Chap. IX.: How Solon gave power to the people.

Chap. X.: Reforms the currency, weights and measures.

Chap. XI.: Goes abroad.

Chap. XII.: The testimony of his own poems.

Chap. XIII.: Party divisions immediately following.

Chap. XIV.: Peisistratus makes himself tyrant; his exile and return.

Chap. XV.: How he disarmed the people.

Chap. XVI.: His government moderate and popular.

Chap. XVII.: Succeeded by his sons.

Chap. XVIII.: Harmodius and Aristogeiton.

Chap. XIX.: Expulsion of the Peisistratidæ.

Chap. XX.: Isagoras and Kleisthenes.

Chap. XXI.: The constitution of Kleisthenes.

Chap. XXII.: The times immediately following; ostracism; building of a hundred triremes.

Chap. XXIII.: Recovery of power by the Areopagus; Themistokles and Aristides.

Chap. XXIV.: Athens lays claims to the leadership of Greece.

Chap. XXV.: Overthrow of the Areopagus by Ephialtes and Themistokles.

Chap. XXVI.: Growth of the Democracy; Kimon.

Chap. XXVII.: Perikles.

Chap. XXVIII.: His successors; Nikias, Kleon, Thucydides, Theramenes.

Chap. XXIX.: The four hundred; the proposals of Pythodorus.

Chap. XXX.: The constitution as proposed for the future.

Chap. XXXI.: The constitution as proposed for the immediate present.

Chap. XXXII.: The government of the four hundred.

Chap. XXXIII.: It lasted four months, and was good.

Chap. XXXIV.: Arginusæ Ægospotami Lysander and establishment of the oligarchy.

Chap. XXXV.: The thirty and their government.

Chap. XXXVI.: Protests of Theramenes.

Chap. XXXVII.: Theramenes put to death, and the Lacedæmonans call ed in.

Chap. XXXVIII.: End of the thirty, and reconciliation of parties.

Chap. XXXIX.: Terms of the reconciliation.

Chap. XL.: Its conclusion; action of Archinus.

Chap. XLI.: Recapitulation of the preceding changes; the sovereign power of the people.

Chap. XLII.: Admission to citizenship; training of the Ephebi.

Chap. XLIII.: Election to offices, by lot or vote.

Chap. XLIV.: The Council continued.

Chap. XLV.: Deprived of the power of putting to death.

Chap. XLVI.: The Council continued.

Chap. XLVII.: The treasurers of Athena; the government-sellers.

Chap. XLVIII.: The receivers; auditors.

Chap. XLIX.: The Council holds a muster of the Knights, etc.

Chap. L: Surveyors of temples; city magistrates.

Chap. LI.: Clerks of the market; inspectors of weights and measures, etc.

Chap. LII.: The Eleven; suits decided within a month.

Chap. LIII.: Judicial officers; arbitrators.

Chap. LIV.: Surveyors of roads; auditors; secretaries.

Chap. LV.: The archons; how they are appointed.

Chap. LVI.: The archon (Eponymus); his duties.

Chap. LVII.: The king archon; his duties.

Chap. LVIII: The commander-in-chief, polemarch

Chap. LIX.: The Thesmothetæ; their functions.

Chap. LX.: The directors of games; the sacred oil.

Chap. LXI.: Election by vote to all offices of war department.

Chap. LXII.: Pay attached to offices

Chap. LXIII.: Appointment of jurors.

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