WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The boule was a group of 500 men, 50 from each of ten Athenian tribes, who served on the Council for one year. Unlike the ekklesia, the boule met every day and did most of the hands-on work of governance. It supervised government workers and was in charge of things like navy ships (triremes) and army horses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Each tribe selected 50 council members for the 500-member Boule, usually chosen by lot. It formed an absolutely vital role in the new ‘democracy’ because it carried out the everyday work of the assembly and provided a permanent council that could make decisions when the assembly was not in session.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cleisthenes, an Alcmaeonid like Pericles, furthered democracy first by ousting the Pisistratid tyrant Hippias (with Sparta’s help), and more so by a series of reforms. Cleisthenes’ reforms are so clearly designed to increase the people’s power that he can be described as a true democrat.

Detailed explanation-4: -In Aristotle’s Constitution of Athens, he attributes to Draco a boule of 401 members, but Solon is generally taken as the one who started the boule, with 400.

Detailed explanation-5: -Erechthesis. Aegeis. Pandianis. Leontis. Acamantis. Oeneis. Cecropis. Hippothontis. More items •20-Nov-2019