Solon Reforms

• divided Athenians into 4 classes according to wealth
• instituted an assembly on citizens
• ordinary citizens allowed to sit on jury
• allowed ordinary citizens to appeal to jury
• abolished debt-slavery and cancelled debts
• pentakosiomedimnoi

  ‘500 medimnoi men’, ‘millionaire’ class able to hold the top political jobs
• hippeis


  (300 medimnoi) - could afford to maintain a war horse
• zeugitai

  (200 medimnoi) - could afford hoplite armour, could hold minor political positions
• thetes


  working-class citizens, could attend the assembly and be jurors