15 Aug Briefly discuss what led to the rule of the Thirty Tyrants and the effect this rule had on Athens. And briefly discuss the importance of the Ephialtic Reforms on Athenian democracy.
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Paragraph 1: Thirty Tyrants in fact is the name of a government. After the PeloponnesianWar, the king of Sparta, Lysander, occupied Athens and established anoligarchic government in Athens, which protected by Sparta.Thirty Tyrants has a very big impact on Athens. The influence of the ThirtyTyrants is mainly to end the democratic government in Athens and accelerateFinal Exam: [18SU-2] CAMS 025, Sec MRG: Greek Civ (Brooks) 8/21/18, 11’38 AMhttps://psu.instructure.com/courses/1955770/quizzes/3442889?headless=1 Page 21 of 21the pace of the complete democratic political construction in Athens. At thattime, only a few people had citizenship, and most proletarians did not haveany rights to participate politics. However, Thirty Tyrants also practiced terrorrule in Athens, which killed many democratic leaders of Athens and somemoderates member of the Thirty Tyrants.
Paragraph 2: Ephialtic promoted radical democratic reforms. He not only deprived thearistocracy of power, but also reduced the power of the executive. Moreover,he made the general assembly have the right of legislation, justice andexecutive. Although he was murdered because of his reform, the reform wascontinued by his successor, Pericles. Pericles followed the Ephilaltics reformand expanded the scope of citizen participation in politics, re-organized thecitizen assemblies and 500 member meeting, and required male over theage of 20 join these meetings. These reforms increased peoplesopportunities to participate in politics and made the development ofdemocracy in Athens to its peak
