This ruler created the popular court known as the heliaea. He rallied his countrymen during a war for the possession of Salamis against Megara.
This ruler created the popular court known as the heliaea. He rallied his countrymen during a war for the possession of Salamis against Megara. After he left for ten years, the paraliois led by Megacles fought the pediakois led by Lycurgus. This ruler proposed seisachtheia or "shaking off of burdens" to relieve the debt of his people, replaced the Areopagus, formed the all-citizen general assembly Ecclesia for which discussion issues were prepared by the Boule or Council of Four Hundred, and predicted the tyranny of Peisistratus, his successor. FTP, name this wise Athenian statesman who revised the Draconian Laws.
This ruler created the popular court known as the heliaea. He rallied his countrymen during a war for the possession of Salamis against Megara.
{Solon}