Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Systems of reference
- GENERAL
- ATHENIAN
- 9 Public property in the city
- 10 Cleisthenes and Attica
- 11 Review of J. S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica
- 12 Review of P. Siewert, Die Trittyen Attikas und die Heeresreform des Kleisthenes
- 13 The Kerameikos ostraka
- 14 Megakles and Eretria
- 15 The Athenian Coinage Decree
- 16 Athena's robe
- 17 The treaties with Leontini and Rhegion
- 18 Entrenchment-clauses in Attic decrees
- 19 Apollo Delios
- 20 After the profanation of the Mysteries
- 21 Aristophanes and politics
- 22 Who was Lysistrata?
- 23 A note on IG i2114 [= i3105]
- 24 The epigraphical evidence for the end of the Thirty
- 25 The financial offices of Eubulus and Lycurgus
- 26 The dating of Demosthenes' speeches
- 27 Law on the Lesser Panathenaia
- 28 The Athenian Rationes Centesimarum
- 29 The chronology of the Athenian New Style Coinage
- 30 Review of M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens
- NEAR EASTERN
- Bibliography
- Publications of David M. Lewis
- Indexes
12 - Review of P. Siewert, Die Trittyen Attikas und die Heeresreform des Kleisthenes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- Systems of reference
- GENERAL
- ATHENIAN
- 9 Public property in the city
- 10 Cleisthenes and Attica
- 11 Review of J. S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica
- 12 Review of P. Siewert, Die Trittyen Attikas und die Heeresreform des Kleisthenes
- 13 The Kerameikos ostraka
- 14 Megakles and Eretria
- 15 The Athenian Coinage Decree
- 16 Athena's robe
- 17 The treaties with Leontini and Rhegion
- 18 Entrenchment-clauses in Attic decrees
- 19 Apollo Delios
- 20 After the profanation of the Mysteries
- 21 Aristophanes and politics
- 22 Who was Lysistrata?
- 23 A note on IG i2114 [= i3105]
- 24 The epigraphical evidence for the end of the Thirty
- 25 The financial offices of Eubulus and Lycurgus
- 26 The dating of Demosthenes' speeches
- 27 Law on the Lesser Panathenaia
- 28 The Athenian Rationes Centesimarum
- 29 The chronology of the Athenian New Style Coinage
- 30 Review of M. Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens
- NEAR EASTERN
- Bibliography
- Publications of David M. Lewis
- Indexes
Summary
‘Es ist alles eitel Gold’ saidWilamowitz of Aristotle's treatment of Kleisthenes' reforms in the Athenaion Politeia, complaining only that there was not more of it. For Siewert the proposition that Kleisthenes divided the country into thirty parts, ten round the city, ten in the coast, ten in the inland, called them trittyes and assigned them to the tribes by lot is unequivocally false, a very casual fourth–century deduction from the names of the trittyes without inspection of their actual nature. As for the statements or implications that Kleisthenes wished to mix up the population or introduce new citizens, they do not appear to be worthy even of discussion. Herodotus' view of the nature of the reforms gets even rougher handling; the whole of v.69.2 has vanished without trace. Instead the reforms have become a largely military reorganisation, designed to improve the state's war–machine, probably in the interests of the upper classes.
That military motives were primary in the reforms has been suggested from time to time (see S. p. 9 n. 44). That they were not considered at all in Traill's fundamental Political Organization of Attica (Hesperia Supp. 14 (1973), henceforth POA) was a legitimate complaint (cf. A]A 80 (1976), 311–12 = this volume, 101). S. argues that the primacy of military motives can be deduced by a detailed study of the trittyes, in relation to the road system and in the detectable effort to ensure their numerical equality.
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- Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History , pp. 102 - 109Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997