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Athens – The Cradle of Democracy The Assembly • open to all male citizens • met four times a month • laws presented by the council of 500 (chosen once a year by lot), but every citizen got a vote • thousands of people involved, so it could get pretty noisy and unruly at times • once a year, a vote called an OSTRACISM could be held, to keep people in line The Pnyx Where the Assembly Met The Hill Around the Pynx Today Tourists Standing on the Pynx The Athenian Court System • Courts had six judges but they had very little power because Athenians believed in mass participation for trials • Small trials had 501 jurors • Medium trials had 1001 jurors • Large trials – can you guess how many jurors? Athenian Democracy – A Full Time Job • Most Athenians citizens owned slaves; this is why they had time to debate and vote on laws at the Pynx • A citizen who was not interested in voting on debating laws was looked down on and called an “idiot” • Since every male citizen voted directly on every decision to be made, Athens is know as a DIRECT DEMOCRACY (vs. a representative democracy, which most democracies are today) A Last Look at the Speaker’s Platform of the Pnyx YOU, one day, visiting the Pnyx! The speaker’s view of the assembly with the Acropolis above you and the Agora below