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	TAKIS FOTOPOULOS - Direct and Economic Democracy in Ancient Athens
		This condition of political and economic oligarchy, combined with important economic changes in production and export trade, led to hard competition between rich and poor, to which Solon was already referring in his poems at the beginning of the sixth century.
		Solon's reforms, in particular the Seisachtheia (the shaking off of burdens) that had preceded the reforms of Cleisthenes, created the economic foundations for Isonomia (equality in law) and direct democracy.
		An alternative explanation, based on the fact that Solon in his Iamboi does not refer to debts, is that the Seisachtheia abolished the relationship of the economic dependence of the Hectemoroi, who then probably acquired full rights of ownership of the land that they were cultivating.
	www.democracynature.org /dn/vol1/fotopoulos_athens.htm (4703 words)

	Solon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 594 BC he was made eponymous archon of Attica, in order to subdue the civil disorder that was rampant there.
		He introduced a set of ordinances, seisachtheia, that did much to improve conditions.
		His ordinances were such a success that he was given the task of rewriting the constitution, creating what was later called the Solonian Constitution, which incorporated the first elements of formalised civil democracy in world history.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Solon (1041 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Seisachtheia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Seisachtheia (Greek: seiein, to shake, and achthos, burden, i.e.
		The same would result if a man defaulted on a debt whose collateral was the debtor's personal freedom.
		The seisachtheia laws immediately cancelled all outstanding debts, retroactively emancipated all previously enslaved debtors, reinstated all confiscated serf property to the hektemorioi, and forbade the use of personal freedom as collateral in all future debts.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Seisachtheia (211 words)

	republikanisme.nl: de Atheense democratie
		This measure is commonly called the Seisachtheia [= removal of burdens], since thereby the people had their loads removed from them.
		Next Solon drew up a constitution and enacted new laws; and the ordinances of Draco ceased to be used, with the exception of those relating to murder.
		Hij kreeg speciale bevoegdheden als archont om de Atheense stadsstaat te hervormen om daarmee anarchie en tirannie te voorkomen.Het eerste wat Solon deed, was de schulden kwijtschelden van de arme boeren (de seisachtheia).
	www.republikanisme.nl /democratie.html (3267 words)

	Solon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Solon is renowned for his judicial contributions to Athenian law, and for such fame he now has a marble relief portrait outside the House of Representatives Chamber today.
		He instituted the seisachtheia or "the shaking off of burdens" in which his law nullified all debts and pledges of servitude, outlawed the enslavement of persons on account of their debts, and limited the quantity of land a man could possess.
		It was uncommon for such reforms to come from a man of aristocratic background, yet it is believed that he instituted these reforms out of a love for Athens' democracy and a fear of tyranny.
	www.vroma.org /~abarker/solonindex.html (207 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 1014
		On this page: Sector – Sectorium Interdictum – Securis – Secutores – Seisachtheia – Seliquastrum – Sella
		The bi pennis and the spear were the chief weapons of the Franks.
		SEISACHTHEIA (Solon.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/1021.html (1005 words)

	Did the Phoenicians Introduce the Idea of Interest to Greece and Italy; and if so When?
		For instance, the periodic royal debt cancellations found in Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria from 2400 to 1600 BC were not transmitted to Greece and Italy.
		As a result, debt-servitude tended to be irreversible, at least prior to Solon's seisachtheia in 594 BC.
		We know of the agrarian usury that emerged from the Dark Age by the seventh century, culminating in Solon's seisachtheia.
	www.phoenicia.org /interest.htm (11526 words)

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